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Volume 1: Part 1 First attempts at measuring business cycles: cycles andtrends in economic factors, Joseph Kitchin; the problem of secular trend,Edwin Frickey; the analysis of economic change, Joseph A. Schumpeter. Part 2Traditional business cycle theories: interactions between the multiplieranalysis and the principle of acceleration, Paul A. Samuelson; a model of thetrade cycle, Nicholas Kaldor; the nature and stability of inventory cycles,Lloyd A. Metzler. Part 3 Sceptical views about business cycles and earlyempirical methods: our unstable dollar and the so-called business cycle,Irving Fisher; random events and cyclical oscillations, Simon Kuznets;Professor Tinbergen's method, J.M. Keynes; on a method of statisticalbusiness-cycle research - a reply, Jan Tinbergen; critical remarks on somebusiness-cycle theories, J. Tinbergen; statistical testing of business-cycletheories, Trygve Haavelmo. Part 4 Measurement without theory debate:measurement without theory, Tjalling C. Koopmans; a theoretical andstatistical dilemma - the contribution of Burns, Mitchell and Frickey tobusiness-cycle theory, Edward Ames; methodological issues in quantitativeeconomics, Rutledge Vining and Tjalling C. Koopmans; Wesley C. Mitchell as aneconomic theorist, Milton Friedman. Part 5 Interactions between trends andcycles: the relation of economic growth and cyclical fluctuations, NicholasKaldor; interactions of cycles and trends, B. Higgins. Part 6 Modern businesscycle theories: recent work on business cycles in historical perspective - areview of theories and evidence, Victor Zarnowitz; the political businesscycle, William D. Nordhaus; an equilibrium model of the business cycle,Robert E. Lucas, Jr.; time to build and aggregate fluctuations, Finn E.Kydland and Edward C. Prescott; real business cycles, John B. Long, Jr. andCharles I. Plosser; real business cycle analysis - a needed revolution inmacroeconometrics, Michael Wickens; measuring business cycles - a modernperspective, Francis X. Diebold and Glenn D. Rudebusch; what havemacroeconomists learned about business cycles from the study of seasonalcycles?, Jeffrey A. Miron and J. Joseph Beaulieu. Part 7 Nonlinear andduration models of the business cycle: catastrophe theory and the businesscycle, Hal R. Varian; measuring business cycle time, James H. Stock; areeconomic time series asymmetric over the business cycle?, Salih N. Neftci; isthe business cycle characterized by deterministic chaos?, William A. Brockand Chera L. Sayers; a nonparametric investigation of duration dependence inthe American business cycle, Francis X. Diebold and Glenn D. Rudebusch.Volume 2: Part 1 Dating business cycle turning points: how good are thenational bureau's reference dates?, George W. Cloos; on the dating ofbusiness cycles, Victor Zarnowitz; dating turning points in the businesscycle, Michael D. Boldin; business cycles for G7 and European countries,Michael J. Artis et al. Part 2 Modelling trends and