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David Ruccio takes Commerce Department data and performs an eyeball analysis of the relationship between profit and inflation. This is an absolutely ridiculous exercise because David Ruccio lacks a valid profit and price theory.
The scientific fact of the matter is that economists do NOT know what profit is. More specifically, the main approaches ― Walrasianism, Keynesianism, Marxianism, Austrianism, MMT ― are mutually contradictory, axiomatically false, and ALL got profit wrong. As Mirowski put it, “... one of the most convoluted and muddled areas in economic theory: the theory of profit.”
Thus, everything economists have said since Adam Smith about the relationship between profit and inflation is proto-scientific garbage.
Because the formal proof can be found elsewhere#1,#2,#3 we can confine ourselves here to simply taking notice of the solution. For the most elementary case of an elementary production-consumption economy, the macroeconomic Profit Law is given on Wikimedia AXEC08
and the macroeconomic Law of Supply and Demand is given on Wikimedia AXEC64
Legend: Qm monetary profit, ρE expenditure ratio, ρD distributed profit ratio, Y total period income, P price, W wage rate, R productivity.
From these two equations then follows the relationship between monetary profit and inflation.
The systemic Profit Law says for the economy as a WHOLE that it is NOT wage income that is the antagonist of profit but monetary saving. Put the other way round: it is deficit-spending/dissaving of the household sector, i.e. ρE greater than 1, and profit distribution, i.e. ρD greater than 0, that are the profit determinants in the elementary production-consumption economy. For the price determination, unit wage costs come in as the third factor.
ALL textbook profit and price theories are false and neither orthodox nor heterodox economists have realized it until this very day.
Egmont Kakarot-Handtke
#1 The Profit Theory is False Since Adam Smith. What About the True Distribution Theory?
#2 Inequality: Market failure or theory failure?
#3 How the intelligent non-economist can refute every economist hands down
From these two equations then follows the relationship between monetary profit and inflation.
The systemic Profit Law says for the economy as a WHOLE that it is NOT wage income that is the antagonist of profit but monetary saving. Put the other way round: it is deficit-spending/dissaving of the household sector, i.e. ρE greater than 1, and profit distribution, i.e. ρD greater than 0, that are the profit determinants in the elementary production-consumption economy. For the price determination, unit wage costs come in as the third factor.
ALL textbook profit and price theories are false and neither orthodox nor heterodox economists have realized it until this very day.
Egmont Kakarot-Handtke
#1 The Profit Theory is False Since Adam Smith. What About the True Distribution Theory?
#2 Inequality: Market failure or theory failure?
#3 How the intelligent non-economist can refute every economist hands down