The Economics of the Profit Rate presents a broad synthesis of recent work and builds on classical theory, using the tools of modern economics, to suggest alternative approaches to conventional microeconomics and macroeconomics. In sharp contrast to the general equilibrium theory, the emphasis...

[fre] La dynamique classique et la macro-économie. Réponse à la note de Dos Santos Ferreira. . La question posée par Dos Santos Ferreira dans sa note (Dos Santos Ferreira R. [1989]) publiée dans le numéro de septembre 1989 de cette revue est parfaitement explicite : « La dynamique...

[eng] Long term equilibrium, stationary disequilibrium, and crisis. . In this article, we show that the analysis of competitive mechanisms by the classics (Smith, Ricardo, Marx) can be used as a point of departure for the construction of a disequilibrium microeconomics. On this basis, we build a...

Robert Brenner's analysis of the structural crisis of the late 20th century, in his Economics of Global Turbulence, is based on the observation of the decline of the profit rate, as is common among Marxist economists. Instead of the usual reference to the features of technical change, Brenner...