Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/219814 
Year of Publication: 
2016
Series/Report no.: 
Institute of Economic Research Working Papers No. 31/2016
Publisher: 
Institute of Economic Research (IER), Toruń
Abstract: 
This paper provides an introduction to the business cycle. In the capitalist economy there are fluctuations in economic activity which apply to all aspects of socio-economic development. Capitalist economy is growing at a variable rate. These regular changes in economic activity are called cyclical or economic fluctuations. Business cycles as we know them today were first identified and analyzed by Arthur Burns and Wesley Mitchell in their 1946 book, Measuring Business Cycles (Romer, 2008): 'Business cycles are a type of fluctuation found in the aggregate economic activity of nations that organize their work mainly in business enterprises: a cycle consists of expansions occurring at about the same time in many economic activities, followed by similarly general recessions, contractions, and revivals which merge into the expansion phase of the next cycle'(Burns, Mitchell, 1946, s. 5).
Subjects: 
business cycle
Michal Kalecki
political business cycle
JEL: 
A10
F44
G00
P10
Creative Commons License: 
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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