The profit rate: Where and how much did it fall? Did it recover? (USA 1948-2000)

Review of Radical Political Economics

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 437-461

  Duménil, Gérard ^a   Lévy, Dominique ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS OUEST NANTERRE LA DÉFENSE   (France)

Author keywords

Productivity; Profit rate; Share of profits

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037016069     PISSN: 04866134     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0486-6134(02)00178-X     Document Type: Article

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