U.K. officials need to spend $38.60 plus shipping for Bernard Lonergan’s “Macroeconomic Dynamics: An Essay In Circulation Analysis.” To satisfy their obligation to the U.K. public, they must read, understand, and thus gain enlightenment from Macroeconomic Field Theory as to how the dynamic system of production, finance, and exchange actually works. What are its norms and what practical precepts does the explanation of the dynamic organic process yield to free people?
Also. they need to call a colloquium in which several economists lecture and present scholarly technical papers on Macroeconomic Field Theory to help all government officials understand their nation’s present problems, past mistakes, and future solutions.
U.S. officials at the Fed. the Treasury, and Congress should seek the same enlightenment; and bankers, money managers, and financial talk-show hosts should do the same. (Click here and here)
More positively, the channels (of circulation, whose concomitance and interdependencies are represented in the Diagram of Rates of Flow) account for booms and slumps, for inflation and deflation, for changed rates of profit, for the attraction found in a favorable balance of trade, the relief given by deficit spending, and the variant provided by multinational corporations and their opposition to the welfare state. [CWL 15, 17]
Rather than causing inflation, the federal budget should be balanced to avoid inflation.
Now this type of surplus (personal income stemming from government profligacy) is not confined to warlike concerns. Once the possibility of an unbalanced budget is established, the precedent can be invoked to persuade politicians to carry on other wars: wars on illiteracy, on poverty, on ill health, on unemployment, on insecurity. Where the profit motive does not prove efficacious, the state must intervene. … the increasing volume of transactions requires a larger money supply, and the central bank can be persuaded to meet the demand. … it appears to be less evident that a vicious circle of ever more demands for a larger money supply with no increase in real income is inflationary … In any case there has emerged in fact if not in name the welfare state. … Its mechanism is rather strikingly similar to that of the favorable balance of foreign trade. The debt once owed by colonies to richer countries now is replaced by the national debt. … now the long overdue basic expansion is doled out to one’s fellow countrymen under the haughty name of welfare. [CWL 15, 85-86]
Herewith, for study by U.K. and U.S. officials, is a representation of an inflationary superposed circuit effected by fiscal imbalances. (See (CWL 15, 173-76)