Louis-Amable Petit and the 19th Century Literature on Crises and Cycles

This paper discusses the theory of crises propounded by Louis-Amable Petit (1868) in the context of the state of similar theories in the second half of the 19th century. An adversary of Say’s law, Petit offered an endogenous explanation of crises based on the fluctuations of the part of income consu...

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Main Author: Daniele Besomi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Association Œconomia 2012-06-01
Series:Œconomia
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/oeconomia/1583