4 papers
Capital growth since the 19th century
Gordon Getty, Nikita Tkachenko
We argued in an earlier paper (Getty and Tkachenko 2025b), from data reported for net saving and market-value capital by 94 nations over the period 1980-2021, that net saving has h…
Consumption and capital growth
Gordon Getty, Nikita Tkachenko
Capital growth, at large scales only, arrives with no help from net saving, and consequently with no help from consumption constraint. Net saving, at large scales, is sacrifice of…
A separate way to measure rate of return
Gordon Getty, Nikita Tkachenko
Net profit is sometimes found from data for net operating surplus. We propose a way to find it from data for consumption, pay and market-value capital, and concomitantly to reveal…
Sources of capital growth
Gordon Getty, Nikita Tkachenko
Data from national accounts show no effect of change in net saving or consumption, in ratio to market-value capital, on change in growth rate of market-value capital (capital accel…