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Kuznets swing

Proposed economic wave of 15–25 years

Proposed economic wave of 15–25 years

The Kuznets swing (or Kuznets cycle) is a claimed medium-range economic wave with a period of 15–25 years identified in 1930 by Simon Kuznets. Kuznets connected these waves with demographic processes, in particular with immigrant inflows/outflows and the changes in construction intensity that they caused, that is why he denoted them as "demographic" or "building" cycles/swings. Kuznets swings have been also interpreted as infrastructural investment cycles.

Some modern economic commentators argue the Kuznets swing reflects an 18-year cycle in land values. Fred Harrison argues this cycle of boom and bust could be smoothed or avoided altogether by levying an annual tax on the value of land (land value tax).

Kuznets' analysis was criticized by Howrey (1968). Howrey claimed that the apparent business cycle found by Kuznets was an artifact of the filter Kuznets used. Howrey suggested that the same cyclical pattern could be found in white noise series when the Kuznets filter was applied.

References

References

  1. Kuznets S. ''Secular Movements in Production and Prices. Their Nature and their Bearing upon Cyclical Fluctuations''. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1930.
  2. See, e.g., [[Jay Wright Forrester. Forrester J. W.]] New Perspectives on Economic Growth. ''Alternatives to Growth – A Search for Sustainable Futures'' / Ed. by D. L. Meadows. Cambridge, MA: Ballinger, 1977. P. 107–121; [[Andrey Korotayev. Korotayev, Andrey V.]], & Tsirel, Sergey V. [http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/9jv108xp A Spectral Analysis of World GDP Dynamics: Kondratieff Waves, Kuznets Swings, Juglar and Kitchin Cycles in Global Economic Development, and the 2008–2009 Economic Crisis]. ''Structure and Dynamics''. 2010. Vol.4. #1. P.3-57.
  3. (January 22, 2010). "The Great 18-Year Real Estate Cycle".
  4. "Why we must halt the land cycle".
  5. Harrison, Fred. (April 11, 2005). "Fred Harrison: Want to get rid of boom and bust? Tax land, not income". The Guardian.
  6. Howrey, E. "A spectrum analysis of the long swing hypothesis." ''International Economic Review''. 9:228-252. 1968.
  7. Cogley, Timothy and Nason, James M. "Effects of the Hodrick-Prescott filter on trend and difference stationary time series: implications for business cycle research." in ''Real Business Cycles: A Reader''. eds. James Hartley, Kevin Hoover, and Kevin D. Salyer. 1998. p. 636.
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