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Author Gérard, Jean-Pierre, 1940-

Title Employment, interest & profitability / Jean-Pierre Gérard
Published London : Economica, 1999

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 W'PONDS  339.01 Ger/Eia  AVAILABLE
Description x, 67 pages 10 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Contents Ch. I. The behaviour of company directors, real long interest rates and economic profitability. 1. Economic profitability and real interest rates. 2. How company directors behave -- Ch. II. The theory of the relationship between employment and capital profitability. 1. Plotting the RoCE-employment curve. 2. The shape of the curve. 3. Defining the theory. 4. What these curves mean -- Ch. III. Discussion of the theory. 1. The shape of the curve. 2. Real interest rates. 3. Public sector profitability and the shape of the curve -- Ch. IV. Employment, monetary issues and public finances. 1. Employment, profitability and monetary policy. 2. Employment policy and the employment-profitability curve -- Ch. V. Structural effects. 1. German capitalism versus British-US capitalism, a question of rates? 2. Increases in real interest rates are an advantage to British-US capitalism
Subject Employment (Economic theory)
Interest rates.
Profit.
ISBN 1902282051 (paperback)
Other Titles Trilogie. English