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  • Modeling Economic Instability: an History of early Macroeoonomics
    • Chapter 1 – Introduction
    • Chapter 2 – Looking for Dynamic Economics: Tinbergen’s Early Breakthrough
    • Chapter 3 – Relaxation Oscillations in the Early Development of Econometrics: a Road Not Taken
    • Chapter 4 – Frisch’s Macro-Dynamics: Inner Stability and External Impulses
    • Chapter 5 – Kalecki’s Macro-Dynamics: “Automatic Cycles,” Stagnation and Class Struggle
    • Chapter 6 – Tinbergen’s Macro-Dynamics: Instability and the Possibility of Collapse
    • Chapter 7 – Business Cycles, Pump-Priming and the Role of Public Expenditures
    • Chapter 8 – Stability Analysis and Early Keynesian Systems
    • Chapter 9 – Full Employment and Instability: Disentangling Issues on Existence and Stability
  • Grappling with Instability: a history of early post WW2 period
  • Reviews of the Book

Author: Vincent Carret

Macrodynamics in wonderland: the race for profits in Kalecki (1933)

June 4, 2024 Michaël Assous and Vincent Carret

This post is based on the chapter 5 of the book. All comments are welcomed. “Well, in OUR country,” said…

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Posted in: Part I Filed under: business cycle, capitalists, profits

A micro foundational episode of the early history of macroeconomics: Jan Tinbergen’s first step toward multiple equilibria and coordination failures

May 28, 2024 Michaël Assous and Vincent Carret

    This post is based on an article accessible here presented at a workshop held in Nice in September…

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Posted in: Part I Filed under: coordination, equilibrium, J.G Koopmans, Tinbergen, unemployment

Questioning Samuelson’s dogma: Schelling on growth and cycles

July 15, 2022 Michaël Assous, Elie Malhaire and Vincent Carret

In the context of the 1937 recession, Paul Samuelson (1915-2009) provided a dynamic framework (1939) for studying the effects of…

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Posted in: Part III, Uncategorized Filed under: cycle, Domar, Samuelson, Schelling

Walking the tightrope: Klein, Patinkin and Schelling on price flexibility and stability

January 14, 2022 Michaël Assous and Vincent Carret

As Paul Samuelson’s first PhD student, Lawrence Klein was well positioned to endorse the view that any macroeconomic models should…

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Posted in: Part III

Waiting for the judgment day: Hansen, Samuelson, Pigou and Klein on the classical stationary state

December 18, 2021 Michaël Assous and Vincent Carret

This post is based on parts of an article accessible here. All comments are welcomed. The multiplier-accelerator model (see this…

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Posted in: Part III

Bridging comparative statics and dynamics in Samuelson’s 1941 IS-LM model

November 18, 2021 Michaël Assous and Vincent Carret

This post is based on parts of chapter 7 of our book that have already been published here. All comments…

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Posted in: Part II, Part III

Out of the beaten path: Lundberg’s take on instability

November 6, 2021 Michaël Assous and Vincent Carret

      The idea that the economy can be fluctuating even if markets are at equilibrium (all which is…

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Posted in: Part II, Part III Filed under: business cycle, disequilibrium

Priming the pump: on some lessons learned from Samuelson’s 1939 accelerator-multiplier model 

October 16, 2021 Michaël Assous and Vincent Carret

The Great Depression led to a profound renewal of how problems of governmental fiscal policy were tackled. With reference to…

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Posted in: Part II Filed under: cycle, economic policy

Back to the future: Meade meets M.E.A.D.E. in the person of Tinbergen

June 28, 2021 Michaël Assous and Vincent Carret

This post is based on parts of a working paper accessible here. All comments are welcomed. In a recent issue…

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Posted in: Part I, Part II

Coming (almost) full circle: Relaxation oscillations in the early development of econometrics (1929-1951)

April 26, 2021 Michaël Assous and Vincent Carret

    This post is based on results shown in chapter 3 of Modeling Economic Instability: a History of Early…

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Posted in: Part I Filed under: cycle, Hamburger, relaxation oscillations

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