The Profit Rate in Brazil, 1953-2003

Adalmir Marquetti, Eduardo Maldonado Filho and Vladimir Lautert
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Eduardo Maldonado Filho: Departamento de Ciências Econômicas and Programa de Pós-graduação em Economia, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul - UFRGS
Vladimir Lautert: Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística - IBGE

Review of Radical Political Economics, 2010, vol. 42, issue 4, 485-504

Abstract: This paper investigates the profit rate in Brazil between 1953 and 2003. There was a tendency for the profit rate to fall during the period under study determined mainly by the declining productivity of capital. There were three phases in the behavior of the profit rate. In the first phase, between 1953 and 1973, it slowly declined; in the second, from 1973 to late 1980s, it fell sharply; in the third, from late 1989 to 2003, it increased moderately. These phases correspond to the institutional arrangements of the Brazilian economy, respectively, to the import substitution industrialization (ISI) during the golden age of capitalism, to the crisis and rupture of ISI, and to neoliberalism. JEL classification: E25, N16, O30

Keywords: profit rate; wage; labor productivity; capital productivity; Brazil (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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