Re: [OPE] Just published: THE NATIONAL QUESTION AND THE QUESTION OF CRISIS (RPE, Vol. 26)

From: Dave Zachariah <davez@kth.se>
Date: Mon Nov 29 2010 - 09:38:58 EST

On 29 November 2010 15:06, GERALD LEVY <gerald_a_levy@msn.com> wrote:

> Another issue:
>
> There is an interesting policy proposal implication to your theorization:
> if corporations and states want to increase the long-term rate of profit
> all they
> have to do is increase unproductive expenditures. This is a particularly
> odd perspective, imo, coming from someone who is partially Smith-inspired.
>

No, in the 'long run' this is not a necessary conclusion. In uncreased
unproductive spending raises the average profit rate quickly but would
affect the productivity growth rate negatively---a term in the numerator of
R---in the long term

/Dave Z

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