At 04:11 PM 18/02/03 +1000, you wrote:
Can anyone explain to me how profits can be distributed as income
before a sale is made (price is met)? If there is insufficient purchasing
power to provide effective demand, i.e. meet the prices generated in the
same period of production which price
To: All Devious Defenders of the Status Quo (DDotSQ) on my copy list.
Good day folks,
As you know by now, TOP is a set of principles and technical
requirements that defines a balanced industrial economy which
is able to produce every thing its people want to produce with a
minimum input of
Unlike Douglas' argument, there is no need for an
expanding injection in the short term from either
credit or exports simply to pay the minimum
sustainable supply price of the product.
Assuming steady state, but Douglas' argument does not
assume steady
At 02:46 PM 18/02/03 +1000, Victor Bridger wrote:
Dr. Bruce R. McFarling says further:
Keynes argues that the income generated by effective demand is equal to
that effective demand, but that only a portion of income finances effective
demand, so that the shortfall that must be made up comes
Following Wally Klincks suggestion, I have visited
the ALOR site and carefully read Eric Butlers 45-page
essay, Releasing Reality.
As a consequence I now understand several things that
have been vaguely puzzling to me.
1. Bill Ryans suspicion that Louis Kelso borrowed
his best ideas from
I apologize for having hit the send button on my
commentary of this morning before having noticed
Victor Bridger's of Monday.
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This points to the difference between the Douglas and
Keynes approaches to analysis. Douglas aggregates
salaries, wages and dividends. Keynes aggregates
salaries, wages and profits.
Its not either or, is it? So-called Earned Income,
which simply means income as the liabilities of firms,
I can see the problem. Apparently there appears to be a difficulty in
language. I used the word profit. This has been translated to costs. At
least there is agreement that (assuming profit is meant - not costs) profit
cannot be distributed until a sale is made. I still want someone to explain
how,