Essays about: "Themistoklis Kalogerakos"

Found 2 essays containing the words Themistoklis Kalogerakos.

1. 1. Technology, distribution, and long-run profit rate dynamics in the U.S. manufacturing sector, 1948-2011: evidence from a Vector Error Correction Model (VECM)

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen

   Author : Themistoklis Kalogerakos; [2014]
   Keywords : U.S. manufacturing sector; technical change; capital accumulation; real wages; falling rate of profit; Marx; cointegration; VECM; Business and Economics; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : The examination of the determining factors of long-run profitability in the manufacturing sector has been largely neglected in the literature. Existing studies either overlook the internal profit dynamics of the sector for the sake of international developments or do not go beyond the application of descriptive statistics. READ MORE

3. 2. Financialization, the Great Recession, and the rate of profit: profitability trends in the US corporate business sector, 1946-2011

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen

   Author : Themistoklis Kalogerakos; [2013]
   Keywords : Falling rate of profit; US economy; structural crisis; Great Recession; Marx; financialization; profitability trends; Social Sciences; Business and Economics;

   Abstract : The tendential fall in the rate of profit lies in the center of a long-lasting debate among Marxist scholarship on its centrality and empirical relevance in the investigation of structural crises. Without neglecting the financial aspect of the current crisis, which is covered in the vast majority of academic accounts, we try to discover its underlying roots in the entire spectrum of capitalist production in the US, in reference with that debate. READ MORE