Nonlinear Models of Fluctuating Growth

An International Symposium Siena, Italy, March 24–27, 1983

I. Extensions of the Predator-Prey-Model of a Growth Cycle.
Implications of Workers’ Savings for Economic Growth and the Class Struggle.
Alternative Monetary Policies in a Classical Growth Cycle.
Unemployment Insurance and Cyclical Growth.
A Generalization of R. Goodwin’s Model with Rational Behaviour of Economic Agents.
Disaggregating Models of Fluctuating Growth.
II. Further Contributions to a Theory of Fluctuating Growth.
Cyclical Input Demands and the Adjustment Cost Theory of the Firm.
Long-Term Growth and the Cyclical Restoration of Profitability.
The Inflation-Based ‘Natural’ Rate of Unemployment and the Conflict over Income Distribution.
Cyclical and Structural Aspects of Unemployment and Growth in a Nonlinear Model of Cyclical Growth.
III. On New Mathematical Methods and Methodological Concepts.
Some New Techniques for Modelling Nonlinear Economic Fluctuations: A Brief Survey.
Synergetics and Dynamic Economic Models.
Embodied Technical Progress in a Dynamic Economic Model: The Self-Organization Paradigm.
Fluctuations and Growth: Keynes, Schumpeter, Marx, and the Structural Instability of Capitalism.
IV. Econometric Models.
Cyclical Growth in a Nonlinear Macrodynamic Model of the Italian Economy.
An Econometric Model of the Shares of Wages in National Income: UK 1855–1965.