Wednesday, June 5, 2013

Towards Justificaton of Say's Law (preliminary)

NOTICE
  • NEVER TRUST THE FOLLOWING
Summery
  • Principal axiom of classical economics: Say's law (S = D)
  • Neo-classical generalization: Walras' law ($\Sigma{ps} = \Sigma{pd}$)
  • Supply might be estimated as total wealth (in equilibrium theories, assumed somewhat constant, except on unpredictable changes of tastes and technologies)
  • Demand might be formulated as utility function (might be usually function of price of goods, expectation, with any other endogeous parameters)
  • Usually, tangible affections (shocks to technologies and tastes) to equilibrium is usually formulated in supply function, and demand is determined with markets alone
  • Note that: Technology seems to be supply factor, but tastes are not supply factor for non-economists
Supply - Wealth - Exchange Value - Demand - Welfare - Utility - Use Value
  • If you think all these words above have same meaning, you need only one word
  • We use such words vaguely but quite differently
  • These must not be confused each other
  • And indeed Say's (Walras') law need theoretical justification
TODO
  • State an acceptable definition for demand

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