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The term ‘cycles’ can be interpreted narrowly to mean strictly periodic phenomena, or broadly to mean irregular fluctuations with or without quasi-periodic tendencies (as in business cycles or Kuznets cycles). Here it will be interpreted broadly.
This chapter was originally published in The New Palgrave: A Dictionary of Economics, 1st edition, 1987. Edited by John Eatwell, Murray Milgate and Peter Newman
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Lee, R. (1987). Population Cycles. In: The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-95121-5_1874-1
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