The bush business cycle profit rate: Support in a theoretical debate and implications for the future

Review of Radical Political Economics

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 335-342

  Bakir, Erdogan ^a   Campbell, Al ^b  

^a BUCKNELL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

Business cycle; Marxian crisis theory; Rate of profit; Social structure of accumulation

Indexed keywords

EID: 70249138384     PISSN: 04866134     EISSN: 15528502     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0486613409336346     Document Type: Article

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