独占的価格形成と構造的利潤率格差
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The purpose of this article is to make clear the relationship between the price formation specific to monopoly capitalism and the differential rates of profit between monopoly and non-monopoly sectors. The theoretical analysis of the structural differential rates of profit peculiar to monopoly capitalism has been a matter of concern because it expresses economically the expropriation of non-monopoly sectors by monopoly sectors. The theory which will explains price formation under monopoly capitalism will also clarify the formation of differential rates of profit. However, even if we understand that the structural differential rates of profit is constantly formed through monopolistic competition based on increased social productivity, there remains a problem which has to be examined through the logic which accounts for the development from the monopoly price formation to the structural differential rates of profit. This article consists of three parts. First, the structure of profit rates which the production price system formed by free competition brings is examined. Secondly, it is shown that the developments of the concentration and centralization process increase the minimum requirement of capital volume, and that this process divides industrial sectors into high concentrated and low concentrated sectors. The working of this mechanism will be regarded as a collapse of "capitalistic communism" which means that the monopolistic competition is the only form of competition. Thirdly, it is made clear through the theory of entry preventing price that the minimum rate of profit is much significant to the understanding of the structural differential rates of profit. Especially, even in a situation in which demand is increasing, the minimum rate of profit is to be determined by monopoly power, and the minimum rate of profit becomes a base upon which big capitals reproduce themselves as monopoly.
- 政治経済学・経済史学会の論文
- 2000-07-20