We have recited some aspects of the dynamic economic process:
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- (Dummy) money “must be constant in exchange value.”
- Prices alone do not explain the economic process. Prices must be interpreted in the light of those significant variables which actually explain the economic process.
- The economic process of production and exchange always is the current, purely-dynamic process
- The economic process is an organic whole
- The process has an exigence for a normative pure cycle of expansion.
- Equilibrium requires the keeping of pace and balance among interdependent flows of products and money
- Scarcity is the normal cause of inflation
- Maladjustment of incomes is the maladaptive cause of inflation
- Just as the surplus phase of the expansion is anti-egalitarian in tendency, postulating an increasing rate of saving, … so the basic phase of the expansion is egalitarian in tendency; it postulates a continuously decreasing rate of saving [CWL 15, 139]
- The central adjustment to the respective phases of the process may be formulated as adjustment of I”/(I’ + I”), the ratio of surplus income to total income
- Interpreters of prices must distinguish between real and relative price increases monetary and absolute changes in prices We have recited some aspects of the dynamic economic process: (Continue reading)