Cristina Nardi Spiller () (Dipartimento di Scienze economiche (Università di Verona)) Mario Pomini () (Università di Padova)
Abstract
This paper aims to highlight the main features of Amoroso's reflections on macroeconomic dynamics to which he dedicated a large part of his scientific activity. He developed an original theory of business cycle and he formulated a dynamic generalisation of the Paretian theory of general economic equilibrium which can be considered the main achievement of dynamic macroeconomics due to its ability to extend the analysis of optimising behaviour to an intertemporal context of resource allocation. The influence of Amoroso was modest despite its undoubted analytical capacity, probably because it was too faithful to a Paretian vision of economic relations and at epistemological level too closely connected to the models of nineteenth century physics which he tried to economic reasoning
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Paper provided by Università di Verona, Dipartimento di Scienze economiche in its series Working Papers with number
32.