Dumenil, Gerard; Glick, Mark; Levy, Dominique - In: The Review of Economics and Statistics 75 (1993) 2, pp. 315-20
This study analyzes the important increase in the rate of profit which occurred in the United States during World War II. The gap between the predepression trend line, from 1900 to 1929, and the postwar line, from 1946 to 1989, is estimated as a shift of 15.8 percent in absolute terms (to be...