William Jefferies

Karl Marx Friedrich Engels

The declining rate of profit: Avoiding the key issue

William Jefferies — James Doughney’s latest contribution to the discussion on Marx’s tendency of the rate of profit to fall avoids the key point: the relationship between the proportional rise in the mass of physical capital and productivity rate rises.
Marx working on blackboard

Was Marx wrong about the declining rate of profit?

William Jefferies — James Doughney’s attempted refutation of Karl Marx’s law of the tendency of the rate of profit to fall is thoughtful and thorough, but ultimately wrong.

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