Return on capital and economic growth

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Return on capital and economic growth발음듣기

One of the core ideas of capital in the 21st century is looking at the after tax return on capital.발음듣기

Return on, gotta write that a little bit neater.발음듣기

Return on capital and comparing that to economical growth.발음듣기

With the contention that if the return on capital if R is greater than G then this is associated with, that this right over here would be associated with rising income equality and that more and more income is going to go towards the owners of capital versus labor and since capital tends to be concentrated, wealth is you know, you could view capital as wealth and since wealth tends to be concentrated that will just make the concentration happen even further, even more in equalities and wealth.발음듣기

Now, before we get into that Whether you believe that causality or not, is let's just understand return on capital and how that might compare to economical growth and how that might create returns to income to the owners of capital or income to labor.발음듣기

To think this through, let's just think of a very, very, very simple economy.발음듣기

Let's say the whole economy is nothing but a gold mine.발음듣기

Let's say this is year one.발음듣기

Right over here. And the whole value of the economy, all the wealth in the economy.발음듣기

The capital in the economy. Let's say that we just value it as 1,000 gold pieces.발음듣기

And obviously, we could go into how is that valued etcetera, etcetera.발음듣기

That actually does come into the conversation is we're thinking about the market value of things or we're looking at some things on a more intrinsic basis but let's just go with this simple analogy right now just to start to get our hands around the idea our heads around the ideas of return on capital and economic growth and how they might relate to each other.발음듣기

The capital, let's say it's 1,000 gold pieces.발음듣기

I'll just write GP for short. 1000 GP.발음듣기

And let's say that in that year, the national income.발음듣기

It's a goldmine. It's just producing gold. Let me do this in green.발음듣기

The total of national Income and the whole nation is just a big goldmine.발음듣기

National Income. Let's say that we have a National Income of 100 gold pieces.발음듣기

And let's say that that's divided between income to labor.발음듣기

You needed people to work on the goldmine to actually mine things and whatever else.발음듣기

And so that this 100 gold pieces is going to be split between the owners of the capital, the people who own the land and the tools and whatever else of the goldmine and the people doing the work.발음듣기

The labor. Let's say that 50 of this, 50 gold pieces goes to labor.발음듣기

That's the part that goes to labor and let's say that 50 gold pieces goes to the owners of capital.발음듣기

I'll just say it goes to capital and let's say maybe there's no taxes in this.발음듣기

We're not going to go to taxes and complicate things just yet.발음듣기

This is the after tax. We can now calculate the return on capital.발음듣기

R in year one. R is going to be equal to, well, the owners of capital got 50 gold pieces.발음듣기

They got 50 gold pieces and the capital that they employed was 1,000 gold pieces.발음듣기

50 divided by 1,000, this is going to be 5% right over here.발음듣기

Now, let's think about this in the context of economic growth.발음듣기

Let's say we go from year one to year two.발음듣기

Let's go to year two. And let's just say for the sake of argument that all of this capital that the owners of the capital got that they reinvested back into the goldmine.발음듣기

Now, the value of the goldmine, the capital now in year two is going to be 1,050 gold pieces.발음듣기

The thousand that we started with, we earned another 50.발음듣기

We're reinvesting that back into the capital.발음듣기

Maybe we buy some more equipment, some more land, whatever it might be and so now, it's 1,050 gold pieces and let's say the next year, the national income grows.발음듣기

National income, once again, we're saying this is super simplified economy.발음듣기

Overly simplified, arguably. There's nothing but one big goldmine and now, let's say the national income, let's say, grew by 2%.발음듣기

The national income is 102 gold pieces.발음듣기

There's a bunch of ways that we could split this but let's just say for the sake of argument.발음듣기

Let's just make clear what we just said.발음듣기

We just said that our growth right over here is 2%.발음듣기

Now, the question and this is one of the central questions of the book, is just because R is greater than G in this situation, is that going to lead to more of the national income going to the owners of capital or is it going to go the other way around?발음듣기

Or is the level of inequality going to stay neutral?발음듣기

I encourage you to pause this video right now and try to think about that on your own.발음듣기

Given all of these numbers, come up with different breakdowns of say, year two's national income, breaking it down between how much goes to labor and how much goes to capital and think about in this situation where R is greater than G.발음듣기

Is it always going to lead to more inequality?발음듣기

Well, it actually depends how you break it down this year.발음듣기

You could definitely have a situation where you have potentially growing inequality.발음듣기

For example, you could have a situation where still labor gets 50 gold pieces while capital is getting 52 gold pieces.발음듣기

Now, the return on capital is going to be 52 divided by 1,050.발음듣기

The amount of income to capital is 52.발음듣기

The value of the capital is 1,050 gold pieces and so, we have return on capital of almost 5% but a little bit under 5%. 4.95%발음듣기

In this scenario, the return on capital is approximately 4.95% and we see that once again, R is greater than G and inequality just seems to be getting a little bit more.발음듣기

The owners of the capital are getting more of the income. A larger percentage.발음듣기

They're getting more than 50% than they saw before.발음듣기

But you could have things go the other way around.발음듣기

You could have things go the other way around.발음듣기

Maybe labor had a little bit more leverage this year and they were able to negotiate some wage increases.발음듣기

And so, you have 52 gold pieces going to labor and 50 going to capital.발음듣기

Now, what's the return on capital?발음듣기

In this situation, the return on capital is going to be 50.발음듣기

They're essentially getting the same income but over a larger investment.발음듣기

Over a larger capital base. Over 1,050, which is equal to, 50 divided by 1,050 gets us to 4.76%. Approximately, 4.76%.발음듣기

Just in this very, I guess you could say simplified analysis, you could see that just looking superficially at R and comparing it superficially to G, from one year to the next, doesn't necessarily mean that you're going to have rising income equality.발음듣기

It could be a proxy for it.발음듣기

It could be kind of a very high level way of looking at things but just in it itself, if someone told you the year, hey, R, the return on capital is greater than G, you can't say for sure that that in that year in that year that has gone by that there has been an increase in inequality.발음듣기

Now, what we will do in the next few videos is dig a little bit deeper in that question.발음듣기

Use some spreadsheets to look at some scenarios.발음듣기

Look at scenarios where maybe we hold R constant or R and G constant and see what happens to inequality or maybe we hold inequality constant and see what R has to try and do and we'll do that in the next video.발음듣기

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