>Duncan wrote in [OPE-L:5312]:
>
>> (an idea
>> that a lot of other people have spent time on before and after Marx,
>> including Leontief, Schumpeter, Samuelson, and Goodwin.) The problem is
>> that in a growing economy these echo effects will become relatively smaller
>> and smaller over time.
>
>Would Goodwin agree that "the echo effects will become relatively smaller
>and smaller over time"? That doesn't sound very "chaotic" to me.
>
>I'm not sure that Schumpeter would agree either.
I didn't say that was the _only_ business cycle mechanism Goodwin et al
looked at. Goodwin's attempts to formalize Schumpterian cycles involves
amplifying effects of investment cycles through technical change.
Duncan
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