Cycles crises and innovation : path to sustainable development : a Kaleckian Schumpeterian synthesis Cycles crises and innovation are the major economic forces that shape capitalist economies. Using a critical realist political economy approach the analysis in this fine work is based on the works of Micha Kalecki and Joseph Schumpeter both of whom identify these three dynamic forces as plotting the path of economic development. Jerry Courvisanos thought provoking book examines how the rise of capital through investment enshrines innovation in profit and power which in turn determines the course of cycles and crises. The author concludes by arguing for strategic intervention by transformative eco innovation as a public policy path to ecologically sustainable development.