Rate of Profit in the United States and in China (2007–2014): A Look at Two Trajectories and Strategic Sectors

Autor: Leonardo Costa Ribeiro, Eduardo da Motta e Albuquerque, Catari Vilela Chaves, Adalmir Antonio Marquetti
Rok vydání: 2020
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Zdroj: Review of Radical Political Economics. 53:116-142
ISSN: 1552-8502
0486-6134
DOI: 10.1177/0486613420917683
Popis: This paper investigates the turbulent behavior that might exist under a national average rate of profit. We use a database—ORBIS—that allows our investigation to start from the level of the firm, with data from 2007 to 2014. A comparison between the United States and China organizes the statistical description of the rates of profit in those countries. Three issues are investigated: the trajectories of the national average rate of profit and their disaggregation; the distribution of different rates of profit by firms, economic sectors, and manufacturing sectors, and the stability of those distributions over time.
Databáze: OpenAIRE