Abstract

Real business cycle theory asserts that technological shocks are a major root cause of cyclical fluctuation, but has yet to explain how a sector technological change impacts upon other sectors of the economy to produce aggregate fluctuations in output. This paper suggest that an appropriate analytical framework with which to address the issue may be derived from the long forgotten concept of the elasticity of demand for income in terms of work effort. Our contention is that the concept could be usefully employed by contemporary real business cycle theorists to explain the macroeconomic repercussions of sectoral changes.

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