All other things being equal, the power of a nation to save from its profits varies with the rate of profits: is great when they are high, less, when low
 Karl Marx, Das Kapital (1894). copy citation

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Author Karl Marx
Source Das Kapital
Topic power profit
Date 1894
Language English
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“The less rapid the wear of machinery, the more the commodities over which it is distributed, and the more living labour it replaces before its term of reproduction arrives. In both cases the quantity and value of the fixed constant capital increase in relation to the variable. "All other things being equal, the power of a nation to save from its profits varies with the rate of profits: is great when they are high, less, when low; but as the rate of profits declines, all other things do not remain equal.... A low rate of profits is ordinarily accompanied by a rapid rate of accumulation, relatively to the numbers of the people, as in England ...” source