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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 95, Issue 3

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Volume 95, Issue 3

This issue features a collection 'Policing the Permacrisis', edited by Ben Bradford, Jon Jackson and Emmeline Taylor, in which academic experts, senior police—both current and former—and commentators offer a diverse set of ideas for changing policing for the better. Other articles include 'Back to the Future? Rishi Sunak's Industrial Strategy' by James Silverwood and Richard Woodward, and 'The Case for a Scottish Clarity Act' by Steph Coulter. There are a host of book reviews, such as a review of 'The Inequality of Wealth' by Liam Byrne, and 'The Eye of the Master: A Social History of Artificial Intelligence' by Matteo Pasquinelli.

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