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Energy as a limiting factor of economic growth: the profit rate channel

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  • Alban Pellegris

    (UR2 UFRSS - Université de Rennes 2 - UFR Sciences sociales - UR2 - Université de Rennes 2)

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Within ecological economics, there is a diversity of traditions highlighting the fundamental role of energy in the growth process. Faced with the limitations of neo-thermodynamic (Ayres, Warr...) and neo-physiocratic (Court, Hall...) approaches, our work proposes to consider another paradigm: Marxist political economy. The latter allows us to theoretically identify a profit rate channel through which relative energy prices affect the macroeconomic profit rate. Econometric work carried out over the period 1995-2019 on a panel of 16 countries confirms its existence. These results are discussed in the light of recent literature on the burden of the energy bill.

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  • Alban Pellegris, 2023. "Energy as a limiting factor of economic growth: the profit rate channel," Working Papers hal-04120296, HAL.
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