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The 32 pages that link to Business cycle, each with the reason it gives.

• CapitalismRelated: Investment and demand shifts can generate recurring booms and downturns in market economies.

• Economic growthRelated: Short-run booms and downturns can obscure the underlying path of growth.

• Gross domestic productRelated: Changes in GDP help identify expansions, slowdowns, and recessions.

• UnemploymentRelated: Unemployment typically rises during contractions and falls as activity recovers.

• Market economyRelated: Market economies can experience economy-wide booms and downturns.

• Aggregate DemandRelated: Demand shifts can contribute to expansions and recessions.

• Central bankRelated: Central-bank policy can moderate demand but cannot eliminate economic fluctuations.

• Automatic StabilizerNarrower topic: Stabilizers respond to the expansions and contractions that define this cycle.

• EconomicsRelated: Production, employment, and income can rise and fall together.

• Recession (economics)Narrower topic: A recession is the contraction phase of the business cycle.

• Joseph SchumpeterRelated: Schumpeter linked waves of innovation and investment to cyclical economic fluctuations.

• Economic policyRelated: Policy choices often respond to the cycle’s shifts in output and jobs.

• MacroeconomicsRelated: It organizes the expansions and contractions tracked by macroeconomic indicators.

• Okun's lawNarrower topic: Okun’s relationship describes how labor-market conditions tend to move during cyclical expansions and contractions.

• COVID-19 recessionNarrower topic: The recession was a sudden contraction within the broader pattern of economic fluctuations.

• National income accountingRelated: National accounts track expansions and contractions through changing output and expenditure.

• Economic forecastingRelated: Forecasts seek to identify the timing and scale of cyclical changes.

• National Bureau of Economic ResearchNarrower topic: Dating U.S. business cycles is the bureau’s best-known contribution to economic interpretation.

• Economic crisisNarrower topic: Ordinary cyclical contractions differ from crises in severity, disruption, and spillover.

• Long DepressionRelated: Whether the period was one continuous depression or several cycles remains a central framing question.

• Simon KuznetsRelated: Kuznets examined recurring economic fluctuations as part of his broader statistical research.

• Wesley Clair MitchellNarrower topic: Business cycles were the central phenomenon Mitchell sought to describe and explain.

• Animal spiritsNarrower topic: Shifts in animal spirits can contribute to cycles in investment and output.

• Economy of the United StatesNarrower topic: It provides the broad pattern for interpreting U.S. growth, recessions, and recoveries.

• Ragnar FrischRelated: Frisch modeled cycles as fluctuations produced by shocks moving through the economy.

• Austrian business cycle theoryNarrower topic: The theory offers a particular causal account of recurring booms and busts.

• Edward C. PrescottNarrower topic: Real business cycle theory offers Prescott’s account of these fluctuations.

• Arthur F. BurnsNarrower topic: Burns became known for empirical research on economic fluctuations.

• Anarchy of productionRelated: Uncoordinated investment is one proposed source of recurring booms and contractions.

• Economic depressionNarrower topic: A depression is an unusually deep and prolonged contraction within the broader pattern of economic fluctuation.

• Lawrence KleinRelated: Klein’s prize recognized models designed to explain and forecast economic fluctuations.

• Michał KaleckiNarrower topic: Kalecki’s investment theory explains how economic fluctuations arise and persist.