there is good evidence that capitalists switched more of their profits out of productive investment to make more profits from financial speculation in the neoliberal period. This explains the decline in productive investment growth and the expansion of finance. Unfortunately, using the Kalecki model, Bakir-Campbell hide the Marxist cause for this switch; namely a falling rate of profit in productive sectors. But as they say, the determinants of profitability was not the purpose of the paper.

Although the median number of caregiving hours was similar between men (1.1 hours per week) and women (1.3 hours per week), women made up a larger share of caregivers spending 20 or more hours per week on caregiving tasks (64% women vs. 36% men). Meanwhile, slightly more men than women spent one to three hours per week providing care (51% vs. 49%).