Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/110017 
Year of Publication: 
2014
Series/Report no.: 
Working Paper No. 814
Publisher: 
Levy Economics Institute of Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
Abstract: 
The paper examines the long-run fluctuations in growth and distribution through the prism of wage-and profit-led growth. We argue that the relation between distribution of income and growth changes over time. We propose an endogenous mechanism that leads to fluctuations between wage- and profit-led periods. Our model is a linear version of Goodwin's predator-prey model, but with a reversal of the roles for predator and prey: the growth rate acts as the predator and the distribution of income as the prey. These fluctuations need to be taken into account when someone estimates empirically the effect of a change in distribution on utilization and growth. We also examine our argument in relation to the double movement of Karl Polanyi, the Kuznets curve, and the theories of long swings proposed by Albert Hirschman and Michal Kalecki.
Subjects: 
Distribution-led
Long Swings
Oscillations
Predator-prey
JEL: 
B22
E11
E12
E21
E22
E32
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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