投资在资本主义经济周期

A Kaleckian Behavioural Contribution

New Directions in Modern Economics series

Jerry Courvisanos, Associate Professor of Innovation and Entrepreneurship, The Business School, Federation University Australia

Drawing on this susceptibility cycle model, Jerry Courvisanos shows how corporate and governmental strategic planners can better design policies to mitigate the instability that investment exhibits. The result could be to diminish the aggravating effect that investment instability has on business cycles and employment in capitalist economies.

‘This book offers a comprehensive treatment of the determinants of business fixed investment behaviour and its fluctuations. . . A reader wanting to become acquainted with a Kaleckian–Keynesian approach to investment or business cycles would, I believe, find in this book a wonderful synthesis of the key ideas of this viewpoint. . . Courvisanos presents in this book an approach that should be given serious consideration.’
– Tracy Mott, The Economic Journal

‘The book’s first four chapters, roughly half of its length, introduce Kalecki’s theory and the extensive research literature it spawned. The breadth of this review demonstrates the author’s excellent knowledge of the literature and provides a valuable bibliography of work related to Kalecki’s models.’
– Steven Fazzari, Washington University in St. Louis