A criticism of this essay published in Jacobin https://jacobin.com/2023/09/robert-brenner-marxist-economics-falling-rate-of-profit-stagnation-overcapacity-industrial-policy

Some of this goes a bit over my head tbh

  • Parsani [love/loves, comrade/them]
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    1 year ago

    It seems so, or at least that's what Nicolas is saying, and is also calculating it as the ratio of surplus to constant capital to meet the jacobin piece on its terms while showing that the author makes a terrible error in switching methodologies halfway through a graph and then pretending that it shows anything valuable (and instead actually shows a greater fall in the rate of profit if the entire date range is calculated using that methodology).