László Náray,  István Zsadányi 

(Published on 23/03/2015 Daily Economy)

  “The road-dependent market is where time really matters. Neoclassical economics imagines economics as a road-independent market”. (Lee Smolin)

In our series of articles, we pointed out that the Maastricht criteria system (Mc) was an intellectually defective product of economics.  Why? The reason being even at the time of its creation in 1992, there was no economic ground to assume that the financial stability of a hypothetical and continuously expanding EU can only be secured by 60 % government debt rate. Why exactly 60%? Beyond the fact that this number (60%) was the average government debt rate of the 9 Founder States 23 years ago (1991/92), there is no other well-founded reasoning.

In a depressing environment that considers budget equilibrium as a good thing what we must have, extreme political ideas are spreading again, just like in Germany after the First World War. (In the 1920s, the Germans were overwhelmed by a huge obligation of reparation by the narrow-minded politicians of the age.)

Maastricht targets are unnecessarily tight.

Laszló Náray, István Zsadányi

Published: 03.12. 2015. (Napi Gazdaság printed, online)

German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble said: "Sustainable economic growth cannot be built on debt piles". Every neat, puritan housewife in the microeconomic level would agree with this, but unfortunately, it is injurious demagogy. Although we can imagine a growing economy on barter trade (without the use of money), the expanding world economy does require increasing debt, if the players love to save money.  

It is an accounting fact that the creation of a money unit in the system means even the creation of an equivalent unit of debt-entry. The things which seem to be separated, are interconnected in reality.

If saving money is good merit (instead of consuming), then the mountains of debts should be considered as a natural part of the development - concerning the macroeconomic level.