>>13182504Ecomomic aggragates are not causal, they are a consequence (i.e. an effect) of Microeconomic Principles (Supply/Demand, Comparative advantage, Say's Law, etc) and Monetary Theory. Macroeconomics is a rationalization for authoritarian control. Keynes even admitted as much in his intro to the German edition of his "General Theory".
>The theory of aggregated production, which is the point of the following book, nevertheless can be much easier adapted to the conditions of a totalitarian state [eines totalen Staates] than the theory of production and distribution of a given production put forth under conditions of free competition and a large degree of laissez-faire. [Keynes]In truth there should be only two fundamental branches of economics, the Principles of Economics (essentially what is called Microeconomics today) and Monetary Theory (which is garbage today and rationalization for govt check kiting). Modern economics, i.e. keynesian economics, is based on collectivism. Humans are not fungible, we are not ants or bees.