Greenblatt, R.E. - In: Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 392 (2013) 20, pp. 5006-5018
Profit realization is the dominant feature of market-based economic systems, determining their dynamics to a large extent. Rather than attaining an equilibrium, profit rates vary widely across firms, and the variation persists over time. Differing definitions of profit result in differing...