What's behind the Recent Rise in Profitability?

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  • Edward N. Wolff
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The recent surge in the stock market has called attention to movements in the underlying rate of profit. Over the last decade and a half, profitability in the total private sector has trended upward, and by 1997, according to some definitions, it was coming close to its postwar peak of the mid-1960s. Even in the corporate business sector, the average rate of return earned on the value of its plant, machinery, and equipment, valued at current cost, declined from a postwar high of 17 percent in 1950 to under 5 percent in 1986 but has since risen to 9.6 percent in 1997.

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تاریخ انتشار 1999