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In recent years a substantial number of scholars have attempted to interpret a number of phenomena of our time and/or the result of analyses of various time series as the trough between the fourth and fifth Kondratieff waves. In their (implicit or explicit) view, there will be a fifth Kondratieff, i.e., an economic wave of some 50 years’ duration, carried by a new bunch of innovations (e.g., microelectronics, robotics, bioengineering, etc.).
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Bruckmann, G. (1987). Will There Be a Fifth Kondratieff?. In: Vasko, T. (eds) The Long-Wave Debate. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-10351-7_1
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