Reproduce it yourself

The US non-financial corporate rate of profit, computed live in your browser from the Bureau of Economic Analysis accounts. Change what counts as surplus, change the denominator, change the years — the chart and the figures recompute as you go.

r = s / C · OCC = C / v · ROSV = s / v

Surplus What counts as s

The first keeps taxes on production in surplus, as Marx's categories imply. The second removes them. Roughly six percentage points apart.

Denominator Capital laid out

Years

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Period breaks

Comma-separated years. These boundaries are a choice, not a finding — try your own.

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Rate of profit Organic composition Rate of surplus value

OCC and ROSV are indexed to 100 in the first year shown, so they can share the chart with a rate in per cent.

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