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Capital Accumulation, Profitability, and Crisis

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This paper uses the rate of profit to address the issue of structural changes in class relationships and the process of capital accumulation that occurred under neoliberalism. I take a long-term class perspective and show that changing class relationships along with the financialization of the economy beginning in early 1980s progressively set the stage for the crisis of 2007-2009.

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  • Erdogan Bakir, 2015. "Capital Accumulation, Profitability, and Crisis," Review of Radical Political Economics, Union for Radical Political Economics, vol. 47(3), pages 389-411, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:reorpe:v:47:y:2015:i:3:p:389-411
    DOI: 10.1177/0486613414542774
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    1. Juan Pablo Mateo, 2017. "Capital accumulation in the center and the periphery along the neoliberal period: A comparative analysis of the United States, Spain and Brazil," Working Papers 1723, New School for Social Research, Department of Economics.

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    Keywords

    rate of profit; Marxian crisis theory; capital accumulation; financialization; neoliberalism;
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    JEL classification:

    • B51 - Schools of Economic Thought and Methodology - - Current Heterodox Approaches - - - Socialist; Marxian; Sraffian
    • E22 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Consumption, Saving, Production, Employment, and Investment - - - Investment; Capital; Intangible Capital; Capacity
    • E32 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Prices, Business Fluctuations, and Cycles - - - Business Fluctuations; Cycles

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