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Derrière la crise : la tendance à la baisse du taux de profit. L'apport de quelques travaux français récents

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[fre] La tendance à la chute du taux de profit résulte de la hausse de la composition du capital, expression de la lutte des classes dans la production. Le Théorème d'Okishio, basé sur l'hypothèse d'un salaire réel constant, et imputant à la seule concurrence le changement technique, ne saurait démontrer l'inviabilité de cette tendance. Pire, ses hypothèses sont incompatibles avec les conditions réelles de l'accumulation intensive, où les gains de productivité sont couplés avec une hausse du salaire réel. Les études statistiques révèlent en fait depuis 1945, dans les grands pays industriels, une stabilité du partage salaire/profit et une hausse de la composition du capital. [eng] Beyond the crisis :. The tendency of the rate of profit to fall. Alain Lipietz. The tendency of the rate of profit to fall results mathernatically from an increase in the organic composition of capital, itself understood as a direct expression of the struggle between the classes.. Okishio's theorem, based on a liypothesis which assumes stable purchasing power of workers and which relates technical change exclusively to intercapitalist competition cannot be accepted as the negation of this tendency.. Moreover, Okishio's hypothesis is incompatible with the conditions of realization of an increasing level of production due to important gains in productivity, as is the case for the Post-War expansion.. During this period, one observes in fact, in most industrial countnes, a constancy of the rate of surplus-value and a rise in the organic composition of capital.

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  • Alain Lipietz, 1982. "Derrière la crise : la tendance à la baisse du taux de profit. L'apport de quelques travaux français récents," Revue Économique, Programme National Persée, vol. 33(2), pages 197-233.
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    DOI: 10.3406/reco.1982.408650
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