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This work defends a number of assertions concerning some basic features of post-Keynesian macroeconomic models.
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Parrinello, S. (2013). Causality and Structure in Piecemeal Macroeconomic Modelling. In: Levrero, E.S., Palumbo, A., Stirati, A. (eds) Sraffa and the Reconstruction of Economic Theory: Volume One. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137316837_12
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