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Nice nod to Kornai. One thing he convinced me of (though not in the paper you highlight) was that Marx was right about the "reserve army of labor" being an essential feature of a capitalist economy.

BTW, Joey Politano does a nice Kornai-inspired piece this week: What happens when a supposedly surplus economy has shortages?

https://www.apricitas.io/p/monetary-policy-in-a-shortage-economy

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I missed that! Thanks...

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Edgecliff-Johnson: "And which journalist would not like to get paid by the word for so, so many words?"

Unnecessary ChatGPT will do it for less. :) Nice Holbein reference.

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Kornai: Corollary. It is the job of the central bank to ensure that the system always remains resource constrained. The implication of excess demand on average is that the FAIT should be > 0.

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"the Hans Holbein of Silicon Valley" LMAO

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Burn-Murdock: Maybe mis-interpreting "austerity" to mean refusing to spend wisely instead of wisely financing (for a state this includes taxing) expenditures with NPV>0. And deciding to place trade restrictions with ones most important trading partners is not "austerity" in any sense.

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