Foundations for a Disequilibrium Theory of the Business Cycle

Carl Chiarella is Professor of Quantitative Finance in the School of Finance and Economics at the University of Technology, Sydney. Peter Flaschel is Professor of Economics at the University of Bielefeld. Reiner Franke is a member of the Institute of Monetary Economics at the Technical University, Vienna.

• Figures; Tables; Notation; Foreword J. Barkley Rosser, Jr; Preface; 1. Competing approaches to Keynesian macrodynamics; Part I. Textbook Approaches: 2. AS-AD growth theory: a complete analysis of the textbook model; 3. Disequilibrium growth: the point of departure; Part II. Analytical Framework. Theory and Evidence: 4. The Keynes-Metzler-Goodwin model; 5. Calibration of three wage-price modules; 6. Calibration of the full KMG model; 7. Subsystems and sensitivity analysis of the KMG model; Part III. Monetary Policy: 8. The Taylor Rule in small macro models; 9. Incorporating the Taylor Rule into KMG; References.

Review of the hardback: 'Chiarella, Flaschel, and Franke have honed traditional stability analysis of aggregative macroeconomic models into an astonishingly penetrating critical tool. Their dispassionate and balanced study of current macroeconomic approaches throws much light on the conceptual contradictions that trouble this field, and motivate their suggested remedy, a return to a thorough disequilibrium dynamics in the tradition of Keynes, Metzler, and Goodwin. No serious student of mathematical macroeconomics working within any framework can afford to ignore this research and its implications.' Duncan K. Foley, Leo Model Professor, New School University