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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 97, Issue 2

Includes a Collection titled 'Inequality and the Future of London', edited by Graeme Atherton and Rupa Huq MP, which brings together contributions from politicians, academics and think tanks to explore how inequality manifests itself in London. In the opening commentary, Ben Jackson asks 'What is the Point of the Labour Party?' while John Street, Michael Harker and Samuel Cross explore public inquiries and UK press regulation; Paul Thomas assesses the Prevent counter-terrorism strategy after Southport; and Ben Worthy, Mark Bennister, and Arianna Giovannini take a closer look at the Mayor of London at 25. Book reviews include Mary Dejevsky's review of 'The Russia-Ukraine War and its Origins: From the Maidan to the Ukraine War', by Ivan Katchanovski.

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