INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES ON PROFITABILITY AND ACCUMULATION

Edited by Fred Moseley, Associate Professor of Economics, Mount Holyoke College and Edward N. Wolff, Professor of Economics, New York University, US

• Introduction, Fred Moseley and Edward N. Wolff. Part 1 Trends in profitability in industrialized countries: a comparative analysis of profitability trends in advanced capitalist countries, Thomas Weisskopf; stages in the development of US capitalism - trends in profitability and technology since the Civil War, Gerard Dumenil, Mark Glick and Dominique Levy; unproductive labour and the rate of profit in the postwar US economy, Fred Moseley. Part 2 Sectoral analysis of profitability: structural change and the movement of the rate of profit in the US, Edward Wolff; using US input-output data for Marxian empirical research - values, production prices, and wage profit curves, Eduardo Ochoa; prices, wages and profits in Brazil - an input-output data analysis, 1975, Ednaldo Araquem da Silva and Jean-Luc Rosinger; the regimes of accumulation of the US - 1950, Michel Juillard. Part 3 Profitability, accumulation and the social wage: a Marxian-Keynesian theory of investment demand - empirical evidence, James Crotty and Jon Goldstein; technological change, distribution and stability, Gerard Dumenil and Dominique Levy; a negative social wage and the reproduction crisis of the 1980s, John Miller.

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