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Profit Squeeze and Keynesian Theory

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  • Marglin, Stephen
  • Bhaduri, Amit

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This chapter explores one aspect of the relationship between the system of production and the macroeconomic structure, namely, the role of profitability in determining investment demand and the level of economic activity. Within the system of production, wages are a cost: the lower are profits per unit of production, the lower the stimulus to investment. In a Keynesian view of the macroeconomic structure, however, wages are a source of demand, hence a stimulus to profits and investment. In this view, aggregate demand provides the way out of the dilemma that high wages pose for the system of production. If demand is high enough, the level of capacity utilization will in turn be high enough to provide for the needs of both workers and capitalists. The rate of profit can be high even if the profit margin and the share of profit in output are low and the wage rate correspondingly high.

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  • Marglin, Stephen & Bhaduri, Amit, "undated". "Profit Squeeze and Keynesian Theory," WIDER Working Papers 295568, United Nations University, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER).
    • Handle: RePEc:ags:widerw:295568
    DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.295568
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