A Micro-Approach for Testing Marx's LTRPF: Evidence from Greece, 2000 and 2009

Antonios Patidis

Review of Political Economy, 2016, vol. 28, issue 2, 289-306

Abstract: This article develops a novel micro-approach for the empirical evaluation of Marx's law of the tendency of the rate of profit to fall. Contrary to the traditional method which uses national macroeconomic data, this approach utilises data taken directly from company reports and accounts. The principal advantage of this approach is that it provides an accurate measurement of the value composition of capital, devoid of the measurement limitations of the traditional method regarding variable capital which stem from the inability to distinguish productive from unproductive labour. A disadvantage, however, is that this approach does not cover the entire national economy. The application of the proposed micro-approach to the ongoing Greek crisis yields results which are congruent with the traditional method and reinforce other recent studies linking the current crisis with low profitability.

Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1080/09538259.2016.1142719

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