TY - SER AU - Woodford, Michael TI - Beyond the Natural Rate: Stephen Marglin on the Instability of Market Economies SN - 0022-0515 PB - Journal of Economic Literature KW - Aggregate Human Capital KW - Aggregate Labor Productivity KW - General Aggregative Models: Keynes KW - Intergenerational Income Distribution KW - Monetary Policy KW - Unemployment N2 - , Stephen A. Marglin offers a provocative reformulation of Keynes' theoretical framework, stressing the importance of modeling the dynamics of wage and price adjustment. This review explains and assesses Marglin's argument for the possibility of a persistent equilibrium in which goods and/or labor markets continue not to clear in the absence of active stabilization policy. It also compares Marglin's analysis with that of New Keynesian models, and shows that the two approaches are more similar than might be immediately evident UR - https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/jel.20221712 ER -