York Health Economics Consortium (YHEC) Health Economics Consultancy. Dcp171778_323850.pdf. Dcp171778_348312.pdf. Dcp171766_348204.pdf. Complex adaptive systems.pdf. Microsoft Word - websrha 2009.doc - HOPE7.pdf. KONDRATIEFF WAVES. KONDRATIEFF (or K-) WAVES George Modelski KONDRATIEFF WAVES (or, for short, K-waves) may be defined as a pattern of regularity characteristic of structural change in the modern world economy. Some 60 years in length, it consists of an alternation of periods of high sectoral growth with others, start-up periods of slower growth. The study of this pattern helps to trace the evolution of the global economy, and aids in politico-economic prediction. · The Concept · Characteristics · Kondratieffs and War · Kondratieffs and Global Leadership · Evolutionary Explanation · Implications · Suggested Reading The Concept Since the onset of the 20th century, students of the world economy have been drawing attention to certain long-term regularities in the behavior of the leading economies.
In the 1930s, Joseph Schumpeter endorsed this concept, and named the pattern the Kondratieff, a name that has since been attached to this phenomenon, even as its existence remained in contention in the years after 1945. 1. Table 1. Google.