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Politics and the Business Cycle

Brian Snowden

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Catia Dombaxe

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In a well-known article published in the Political Quarterly over fifty years ago the Polish economist Michal Kalecki put forward his highly controversial analysis of `Political Aspects of Full Employment'. In this paper Kalecki developed what might be referred to as a `Marxo-Keynesian' argument relating to the form of aggregate economic instability likely to be experienced in advanced capitalist democracies. Kalecki's conjecture was that unless capitalism could `develop new social and political institutions which will reflect the increased power of the working class', continuous full employment would not be an achievable objective of economic policy.

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Volume 96, Issue 1

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Volume 96, Issue 1

This issue features a collection titled 'The 2024 UK General Election' edited by Ben Jackson, Colm Murphy and Peter Sloman, in which authors including Ross Mckibbin; Will Jennings,  Gerry Stoker, Paula Surridge, Maria Sobolewska, Mathew Lawrence and many more discuss the sources of Labour’s victory and consider how the result will shape the future of British politics. Other articles include a commentary by Deborah Mabbett on Trump's proposal to buy Greenland; 'Centralised by Design: Anglocentric Constitutionalism, Accountability and the Failure of English Devolution' by John Denham and Janice Morphet; 'Broke and Broken: The Crises Facing Local Government in England' by David Jeffery; and 'Biographies of Discontent: The Challenges Facing Labour' by Helen Goodman. A selection of book reviews feature Morgan Jones' thoughts on 'Against Landlords: How to Solve the Housing Crisis' by Nick Bano, and Lyndsey Jenkins' review of 'Orwell's Ghosts: Wisdom and Warnings for the Twenty-First Century' by Laura Beers.

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