[lbo-talk] Capitalism & Psychoanalysis

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Thu Jul 15 10:09:12 PDT 2004


joanna bujes wrote:


>Capitalists don't enjoy their profits in the future. They enjoy them
>in the present.

Hmm, not exactly. The stock market is all about future profits - or, more precisely, expectations of future profits. And real investment, as Keynes argued, is determined largely by profit expectations, expectations that are heavily shaped by crowd psychology.

Doug



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