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Average Rate of Profit

Also known as “general rate of profit”. That is, the rate of profit of the aggregate social capital. It refers to the ratio of the surplus-value produced annually by the capitalist class to the aggregate capital advanced on social scale, and embodies the relations between functioning capitalists in the distribution of surplus-value…

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