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Between Trends and Trade Cycles: Kondratieff Long Waves Revisited

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New Findings in Long-Wave Research

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At the Colloquium on Research on Long Waves in Paris in 1983, I presented a paper which delineated the broad outlines of a long-run approach to the problem of long waves. The paper was published in Social Science Information in 1984 but did not arouse much interest. The subject kept fascinating me, however, and in subsequent years I elaborated the principles and put them on paper in my thesis of 1988 and in a book (Reijnders, 1990). This chapter summarises the principal findings.

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  1. Jan P. G. Reijnders
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Editors and Affiliations

  1. University of Amsterdam, Netherlands

    Alfred Kleinknecht (Senior Economist) (Senior Economist)

  2. Flemish Section, Free University of Brussels, Belgium

    Ernest Mandel (Professor Emeritus) (Professor Emeritus)

  3. State University of New York, Binghamton, USA

    Immanuel Wallerstein (Director of the Fernand Braudel Center) (Director of the Fernand Braudel Center)

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© 1992 Alfred Kleinknecht, Ernest Mandel and Immanuel Wallerstein

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Reijnders, J.P.G. (1992). Between Trends and Trade Cycles: Kondratieff Long Waves Revisited. In: Kleinknecht, A., Mandel, E., Wallerstein, I. (eds) New Findings in Long-Wave Research. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-22450-0_2

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