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A Steindlian account of the distribution of corporate profits and leverage: A stock-flow consistent macroeconomic model with agent-based microfoundations
Preprint / Working Paper

Post Keynesian economics has largely forgotten Steindl's insight that monopolisation of the corporate sector redistributes profits to those firms least likely to invest them productively. Agent-based methods can be used to incorporate Steindl's insig... Read More about A Steindlian account of the distribution of corporate profits and leverage: A stock-flow consistent macroeconomic model with agent-based microfoundations.

Robert Lucas and the twist of modeling methodology. On some econometric methods and problems in New Classical macroeconomics
Preprint / Working Paper

The purpose of this contribution to the epistemology and history of recent macroeconomics is to construct a clear understanding of econometric methods and problems in New Classical macroeconomics.

Most historical literature has focused (so far) on... Read More about Robert Lucas and the twist of modeling methodology. On some econometric methods and problems in New Classical macroeconomics.

Happiness and the emigration decision
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Happy people are healthier and more creative, productive, and sociable. Because of these positive effects of happiness, it is in the interest of countries to attract and retain happy people. With respect to the decision to migrate, the central questi... Read More about Happiness and the emigration decision.

The role of social norms in incentivising energy reduction in organisations
Preprint / Working Paper

This study was part of a collaborative trial for an energy feedback intervention, providing detailed individual desk based energy feedback information to help individuals reduce energy in an office environment. Although the intervention was individua... Read More about The role of social norms in incentivising energy reduction in organisations.

How do knowledge brokers work? The case of WERS
Preprint / Working Paper

A resource-based view of organizations suggests that internal knowledge is amongst the most important sources of competitive advantage. Regardless of whether these ideas are exaggerated, it is not necessary to buy into them all to accept the signific... Read More about How do knowledge brokers work? The case of WERS.

Pseudo-Goodwin cycles in a Minsky model
Preprint / Working Paper

Goodwin cycles result from the dynamic interaction between a profit-led demand regime and a reserve army effect in income distribution. The paper proposes the concept of a pseudo-Goodwin cycle. We define this as a counter-clockwise movement in output... Read More about Pseudo-Goodwin cycles in a Minsky model.

Working paper no. 41: Factors generating and transmitting the crisis: Functional distribution of income
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The distribution of income between capital and labour has, until very recently, been ignored by the majority of the economics profession. At the same time, the rate of wage growth has systematically lagged the growth of productivity, leading to a fal... Read More about Working paper no. 41: Factors generating and transmitting the crisis: Functional distribution of income.

Working paper no.39: Finance and crisis: Marxian, institutionalist and circuitist approaches
Preprint / Working Paper

Most mainstream neoclassical economists completely failed to anticipate the crisis which broke in 2007 and 2008. There is however a long tradition of economic analysis which emphasises how growth in a capitalist economy leads to an accumulation of te... Read More about Working paper no.39: Finance and crisis: Marxian, institutionalist and circuitist approaches.

Intentions to return: Evidence from Romanian migrants
Preprint / Working Paper

Romania faces an acute population crisis with an aging workforce and an increased number of emigrants particularly from the young, highly educated/skilled population. This paper uses a new cross-sectional data set of Romanian emigrants to find which... Read More about Intentions to return: Evidence from Romanian migrants.

Reflections on the one-minute paper
Preprint / Working Paper

This paper captures the perceptions of both a new academic and his students on the use of the one-minute paper (OMP). Much of the originality of this paper derives from the multi-layered qualitative approach which provides a deeper insight into the d... Read More about Reflections on the one-minute paper.