Article: Marxian and post-Keynesian theories of finance and the business cycle.(Behind The News)

Introduction

The end of the economic expansion that began in the us and the other advanced capitalist countries in the early 1990s presents an opportune moment to review Marxian theories of the business cycle. (1) Much of the orthodox discussion about whether the end of the expansion would lead to a recession has been informed by a neo-classical approach to economics, which conceives of recessions as the result of 'shocks' or 'disturbances' which lead an economy to deviate from a normal path of steady growth. In contrast, the Marxian approach sees business cycles as an intrinsic feature of the way that growth occurs in a capitalist economy.

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