In this article, we propose a keynesian model in which the traditional labor market equilibrium is replaced by an evolutionary game. In such a model the aggregate demand plays the crucial role in the determination of the medium-run equilibrium, differently from the traditional analysis. We show that economic policy and autonomous spending generate bifurcations, characterized by changes in the number of equilibria and/or in the stability properties. Thus, unemployment is not a result of an ad hoc nominal rigidity, but arises as a spontaneous outcome of an interaction process in which bounded rational agents grope for the best wage bargaining strategy.
Keynesian model; unemployment; evolutionary games
