Re: Re: question on the rate of profit

[Michael Perelman <michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I was merely trying to get a handle on the extent to which the profit rate
evolution is affected by "endogenous" economic conditions or by changing
rules of the game.

Happy birthday.

On Wed, May 08, 2002 at 12:38:59PM -0400, Doug Henwood wrote:
> Michael Perelman wrote:
>
> >What do think would happen to the profit rate in recent decades
> >if taxes, pension rules, and regulations had been held constant?
>
> Should they be? Isn't the fight to cut back taxes and regulations
> part of the political effort to raise the profit rate? I'd still be
> 30 if I'd stopped getting older in 1982.
>
> Doug
>

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