The rising proportion of the economy used for investment is one of the most central predictions of Marx’s Capital—or, as he terms it, the “rising organic composition of capital.” Such...
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250 years of the rising organic composition of capital: The factual correctness of Marx, Smith and Keynes
The rising proportion of the economy used for investment is one of the most central predictions of Marx’s Capital—or, as he terms it, the “rising organic composition of capital.” Such a rising proportion of investment in the economy was, less systematically, also predicted by Adam Smith, and by, for somewhat different reasons, by John Maynard Keynes.
