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Category Archives: Science and Explanation
Prediction is impossible in the general case
In his book, FREEFALL (2009, Penguin Books), Joseph Eugene Stiglitz, a professor at Columbia University and a recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (2001) and the John Bates Clark Medal (1979), states that economics is a predictive science. Now, one must distinguish between predicting a) planetary motion in its scheme of recurrence, and b) this afternoon’s weather vs. next month’s weather, or this afternoon’s prices and quantities vs. next year’s prices and quantities, all subject to to conditions diverging in space and time. Continue reading)
Letter to The Bureau of Economic Analysis
The Functional Macroeconomic Dynamics Collaborative
Website: Bernard Lonergan’s Functional Macroeconomic Dynamics
https://functionalmacroeconomics.com
functionalmacroeconomics@gmail.com
Brian C. Moyer, Director
Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA)
4600 Silver Hill Road
Washington, DC 20233
Dear Mr. Moyer,
Presently the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) publishes three general versions of the National Income and Product Accounts (NIPA).
- Gross Domestic Product, Current $
- Gross Domestic Income by Type of Income; National Income by Type of Income; and, National Income by Sector …; Current $)
- Gross Value Added by Sector; Current $)
Would it be possible for the BEA staff to develop a fourth which would be explanatory of the production-and-exchange process? Continue reading
Lonergan stands alone. No one else systematizes the explanatory functional distinctions.
Lonergan is alone in advancing through the field of macroeconomics to the level of system. His analysis is a strictly functional, purely relational, new paradigm of macroeconomics. (Continue reading)
The System of Abstract Primary Relativities Applied to Secondary Determinations
There is required a shift of focus from the concrete secondary determinations of prices and quantities in a non-systematic manifold to the immanent, abstract, primary relativities which may be applied to these secondary determinations to reach particular laws.
Paraphrasing [McShane, 1980, 127]: Taking into account past and (expected) future values does not constitute the creative key transition to Functional Macroeconomic Dynamics. Continue reading
The IS-LM, AD-AS, and Phillips Curve Models
In this section, we are contrasting familiar textbook models of macrostatic equilibrium, with Lonergan’s explanatory theory of macrodynamic equilibrium. We are contrasting a macrostatic toolkit with a purely relational field theory of macroeconomic dynamics. Lonergan discovered a theory which is more fundamental than the traditional wisdom based upon human psychology and purported endogenous reactions to external forces. His Functional Macroeconomic Dynamics is a set of relationships between n objects, a set of intelligible relations linking what is implicitly defined by the relations themselves, a set of relational forms wherein the form of any element is known through its relations to all other elements. His field theory is a single explanatory unity; it is purely relational, completely general, and universally applicable to every configuration in any instance. (Continue reading)
The Process is Always the Current, Purely Dynamic Process, etc. (See full title specification below.)
The process is always the current, purely dynamic process. The analysis is purely functional, purely relational and explanatory analysis. The theory is general and universally applicable to concrete determinations in any Instance; The theory is a normative theory having a condition of equilibrium.
Our subheadings in this treatment are as follows:
- Always the Current Process:
- A Purely Dynamic Process Requiring a Dynamic Heuristic:
- A Purely Functional Analysis:
- A Purely Relational, Explanatory Analysis:
- A Theory, General and Universally Applicable to Concrete Determinations in Any Instance:
- A Normative Theory Having a Condition of Equilibrium:
Always the Current Process: Continue reading
