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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"the rate of profit"”.
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The rate of profit as a random variable
This thesis is a systematic attempt to investigate two conjectures about the distribution of company rates of profit: that it should be log-normal (Gibrat 1931), and that it should be gamma distributed (Farjoun and Machover 1983). <br></br><br></br>A large set of company accounts data is analysed, …
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TECHNICAL CHANGE AND PROFITABILITY: THE LONG-PERIOD BEHAVIOR OF THE RATE OF PROFIT (COMPETITION, RATIONALITY)
<p>This dissertation provides a theoretical inquiry into the effects of technical change on profitability. In the center of the discussion lies the Marxian 'Law of the Falling Tendency of the Rate of Profit' (LFTRP). The LFTRP maintains that mechanization, i.e. the introduction of cost-reducing …
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An empirical investigation into the UK profit rate, 1949-2003
This thesis argues for the importance of the Marxian concept of economic crisis and counteracting forces to the tendency of the rate of profit to fall in contemporary capitalism through empirical research on the UK economy. Mergers and acquisitions, government expenditure, capital goods export, …
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The decline of civic trust in the United States: a critical assessment of competing explanations
… What about your congressman? Regardless of your answer, the odds are it's far less likely that you would respond "yes" to both these questions than your parents or grandparents. Evidence suggests that trust in politics in general has been declining in the United States since 1965 (ANES …
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Marx at 200 – Inquiries into the Measurement of Profitability and its Determinants: The US Economy, 1950-2016
Since the 1950s, various Marxist political economists have confirmed the empirical actuality of the ‘law of the tendency of the rate of profit to fall’. While the present thesis contributes to the burgeoning body of empirical literature that has substantiated Marx’s law, it differs from many of …
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On the transformation problem
<p>In the first two volumes of <em>Capital</em> it is assumed that commodities are exchanged according to their values; with different organic compositions of capital for each sector of the economy this assumption leads to different rates of profit, a result which is not consistent neither with the …
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No Circe with wicked charms: dialectical mediation of time in South Korea’s cultural formation in the 1980s
This dissertation, from the perspective of Marx’s historical materialism, explores the dialectical mediation process of the South Korea’s cultural formation echoed with the peculiar historical modality of financialization in the 1980s. Taking the conception of time as the constitutive logic of the …