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Article #2667Refuting Say's Law
From: fbonsignore
Date: Sun, 15 May 2005 12:54
Date: Sun, 15 May 2005 12:54
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Say's Law states that production doesn't create demand. This places the engine of economies on the consumer. If the consumer wants it, somebody will produce it and will make an income (profit), but if consumers don't want it, production won't make them demand it, so they won't make a profit. Yet this is true only if the principle of biological diversity is overlooked! Humans are diverse, actually we are the most diverse of all living beings! This means there will always be demand for *any* good we can conceive of. (This is particularly true if we take into account great fortunes, as they will demand any goodto make their consumption efficient: they will buy it because they can). So Say's Law is a matter of equilibria, as always: producers will make a profit only if demand is sufficient, but for demand to be sufficient doesn't mean a big market size, it means efficient technology! Given an efficient technology cost will be so low that even a small demand will be enough to make profits *even if those profits are not enough to make a living*. So prodction can create demand, or rather, any produced good can be matched by some potential demand waiting to be expressed. This is the value of novelty, for instance, and it is guaranteed by the principle of biological diversity. Fabrizio J Bonsignore, now Danilo J Bonsignore
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