 This result was widely understood, including by Marx himself, as establishing that capitalism contained inherent limits to its own success.Okishio's theorem was therefore received in the West as establishing that Marx's proof of this fundamental result was inconsistent.More precisely, the theorem says that the general rate of profit in the economy as a whole will be higher if a new technique of production is introduced in which, at the prices prevailing at the time that the change is introduced, the unit cost of output in one industry is less than the pre-change unit cost.