Quelques bénéfices heuristiques d’une redéfinition du profit

Kroës, Romain M. (2008): Quelques bénéfices heuristiques d’une redéfinition du profit.

Abstract

The present paper puts forward a new hypothesis about the economic circuit, which is a product of Marx’s “period of production” and Keynes’s determination order between investment and savings. It leads to a new definition of profit which excludes any remaining competition between savings and consumption on the global scale, and to a revision of National-Accounts’ equation of global income. Finally, the main heuristic benefits of these theoretical developments consist of both acquiring a specific economic time, as an explanatory variable, and demystifying the race to productivity as being globally a Sisyphean task; this will be statistically confirmed.

• Item Type: MPRA Paper
• English Title: Some heuristic Advantages of revising the current Conception of Profit
• Language: French
• Keywords: profit, productivité, crise, limite d'accumulation
• Subjects: B - History of Economic Thought, Methodology, and Heterodox Approaches > B5 - Current Heterodox Approaches > B51 - Socialist ; Marxian ; Sraffian; B - History of Economic Thought, Methodology, and Heterodox Approaches > B0 - General; A - General Economics and Teaching > A1 - General Economics; C - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods > C1 - Econometric and Statistical Methods and Methodology: General > C12 - Hypothesis Testing: General; B - History of Economic Thought, Methodology, and Heterodox Approaches > B2 - History of Economic Thought since 1925 > B22 - Macroeconomics; C - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods > C6 - Mathematical Methods ; Programming Models ; Mathematical and Simulation Modeling > C67 - Input-Output Models; C - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods > C4 - Econometric and Statistical Methods: Special Topics > C41 - Duration Analysis ; Optimal Timing Strategies; C - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods > C0 - General > C02 - Mathematical Methods; B - History of Economic Thought, Methodology, and Heterodox Approaches > B2 - History of Economic Thought since 1925 > B23 - Econometrics ; Quantitative and Mathematical Studies; C - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods > C2 - Single Equation Models ; Single Variables > C22 - Time-Series Models ; Dynamic Quantile Regressions ; Dynamic Treatment Effect Models ; Diffusion Processes

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