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Accomulation of capital

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  • Pierangelo Garegnani
  • Antonella Palumbo

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The paper deals with the ‘Keynesian’ theories of accumulation, i.e. those sharing the premise that in the long period, no less than in the short, it is investment that generates the corresponding amount of savings, and thus aggregate demand what ultimately determines growth. The Distribution-based Long-period Keynesian Approach, which is synthesized in the Cambridge equation and which maintains that adjustment of savings to investments comes about through changes in distribution between wages and profits, is shown to be founded on the doubtful premise that long-period output is basically inelastic to changes in demand. The long-period changes in the amount of capacity, together with the possibility that capacity utilization differs from normal also in the long period, entail that adjustment of saving may occur through changes in the level of aggregate output, without any need of changes in distribution, as is maintained in the Output-based Long-period Keynesian Approach.

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  • Pierangelo Garegnani & Antonella Palumbo, 1997. "Accomulation of capital," Departmental Working Papers of Economics - University 'Roma Tre' 0002, Department of Economics - University Roma Tre.
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    12. Fabio Petri, 2013. "Neglected implications of neoclassical capital-labour substitution for investment theory:another criticism of Say's Law," Department of Economics University of Siena 687, Department of Economics, University of Siena.

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    Keywords

    Aggregate demand; growth; Cambridge equation; Keynesian premise; capacity utilization; long-period elasticity of output;
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    JEL classification:

    • E12 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - General Aggregative Models - - - Keynes; Keynesian; Post-Keynesian; Modern Monetary Theory
    • O40 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Growth and Aggregate Productivity - - - General

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