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Effective-demand-constrained growth in a two-sector Kaldorian model

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  • John S. L. McCombie
  • Mark Roberts

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The paper presents a formalization of Kaldor's two-sector agriculture-industry model of economic growth. It analyzes the model under two different scenarios. The first scenarioânamely, that of idealized (relative) price adjustment in which growth is unconstrained by effective demandâis already well known in the literature. For Kaldor, however, this scenario represented a purely hypothetical theoretical benchmark. This is because it assumes that price adjustment is guided by notional quantities. In contrast, the second scenario, that of quantity adjustment under conditions of false trading at prices that fail to reconcile notional levels of demand and supply, was considered to be more realistic by Kaldor. This is because, in this scenario, the growth of industry is constrained by a lack of growth of effective demand from agriculture. The formalization in this paper both clarifies and removes what are seen as inconsistencies in Kaldor's model.

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  • John S. L. McCombie & Mark Roberts, 2008. "Effective-demand-constrained growth in a two-sector Kaldorian model," Journal of Post Keynesian Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 31(1), pages 57-78, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:mes:postke:v:31:y:2008:i:1:p:57-78
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    1. Isha Gupta, 2022. "Land-constrained growth in a developing economy: A Kaldorian perspective," PSL Quarterly Review, Economia civile, vol. 75(302), pages 263-284.
    2. Ricardo Chica & Oscar Guevara & Diana López & Daniel Osorio, 2012. "Growth determinants in Latin America and East Asia: has globalization changed the engines of growth?," Coyuntura Económica, Fedesarrollo, June.
    3. Shantanu Roy & C. Saratchand, 2023. "On the political economy of corporate encroachment in agriculture: short term macroeconomic concerns," Economia Politica: Journal of Analytical and Institutional Economics, Springer;Fondazione Edison, vol. 40(3), pages 869-897, October.

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