Our warranted rate of accumulation is thus reminiscent of Harrod’s(1939) warranted rate of growth. However, in our case it is related neitherto the goods market equilibrium nor to desired capacity utilization,but to a constant debt–capital ratio of the firm sector. Furthermore, inthe unstable case of the model the economy will be characterized by a macroeconomic ‘paradox of debt’ (Steindl 1952, pp. 113–122): In the disequilibrium process it will be observed that falling (rising) rates of capitalaccumulation as a reaction to rising (falling) debt–capital ratios at thefirm level will cause debt–capital ratios to rise (fall) even further at themacroeconomic level.