Relaxation oscillations in the history of business cycles from 1928 to 1941

To date no satisfactory reason has been given to explain why no economist succeeded in proposing a business cycle model with nonlinear oscillations before Richard Goodwin. This article investigates the attempts of economists to model endogenous macrodynamic fluctuations with relaxation oscillations...

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Published in:The European journal of the history of economic thought 2024-05, Vol.31 (3), p.400-427
Main Authors: Ginoux, Jean-Marc, Jovanovic, Franck
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Business cycles
Economists
Endogenous
jan tinbergen
ludwig hamburger
nonlinear macrodynamics
philippe Le corbeiller
quantitative and mathematical studies
ragnar frisch
Relaxation
relaxation oscillations
richard goodwin
self-maintained oscillations
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Endogenous
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