6.1 Let’s define as profit only that distributed benefit which is provided in return for savings in capital or in quasi-capital.

Definitions of capital and quasi-capital: see the previous chapter.

1. The Objective Political Economy gives the noun "profit" an unequivocal meaning.

In this sense, profit is the effective remuneration for the permanent financing of an enterprise.

2. The profit thus defined is always a financial product for those who receive it.

However, this financial product is only income Revenu when it is in return for a savings in capitalCapital. The profit received in return for a quasi-capital investment is only a financial product, and not also an income.

3. Profit thus defined has a status and functions of its own.

The economic status of profit thus defined lies in the fact that it is the end of a commodity exchange whose other term is the putting into capital or quasi-capital. The functions that this status confers are part of what economic science must elucidate. The remuneration of the capital or quasi-savings in capital raises the following three questions:

• Is the level of this remuneration the variable of a systemic relationship?
• Does this relationship have the effect of regulating this level?
• Does income from savings in capital reduce income from work?