Is economic development a "random walk" or do underlying rhythms and cycles make it possible to anticipate long-term trends? After extensive analysis of economi

Presenting the history of long wave analysis from its origins to the present day and stressing its intimate relationship with the development of business cycle

Of all fluctuations in economic activity, the long wave or Kondratieff cycle is easily the most puzzling and least understood one. Does it really exist, and if

THE idea that the dynamics of economic life in the capitalistic social order is not of a simple and linear but rather of a complex and cyclical character is now

This book presents new methods for the analysis of time series and the identification of long waves. In Part One it is shown that new time series analyses confi