1. The relationship between the change in the average rate of profit on capital and the change in the capital stock is flexible.
To receive profit is one act, to invest again is another. The annual total of new savings in capital may be higher or lower than the annual total of profits. The general interest requires that in times of underemployment, new savings in capital should be greater than profits.
2. The greater the corporate profits allocated to self-financing, the more distorted the prices of the savings in capital.
The so-called employer contributions also distort elementary prices. They distance the wages deemed gross from what they are in reality. The employers' representations have so far remained in favor of both. However, in primary markets (labor, capital), the freedom to choose tightly regulates the freedom to offer only under the following conditions. The hard and fast counterpart of the labor service is its full remuneration. The hard counterpart of the savings in capital service is its full remuneration, as is that of the savings in capital service.
3. The long-term trends in national average rates of profit on capital and national capital stocks are different.
Over a period of at least fifty years of a national economy where the purchasing power of low-wage earners has increased significantly, the average rate of profit on capital fluctuates. The trend around which these oscillations are inscribed is towards stability. Over the same long period, the national stock of capital is on the rise, except for the catastrophes that result in its temporary collapse.
4. The priority given to the appreciation of investments in marketable shares of capital rather than to their return stretches the relationship between the average rate of return on capital and the capital stock.
This priority ultimately makes this relationship disappear. In both politics and economics, the general interest is that of the social body. While the standardization of the publication of the rates of profit on capital is feasible, its neglect goes against the general interest.