Foundations of the economic and social history of the United States: Metaphysical

Scott Albers

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Abstract: "Oppositional Analysis" - the name I give to the metaphysics presented in this volume - proposes a number of dichotomies through which one may analyze and understand systematically the structure of every level of reality. Macroeconomic theory, as well as social research, are two excellent stages upon which we may search for clues and insights to the interaction of oppositions. This is so particularly in connection with an analysis of the precepts of the "Austrian School" of macroeconomics as presented by Ludwig von Mises in his well-known and highly influential book Human Action. Based upon the circuit given for a musical note (see the Apologia and the Introduction to Volume 2, as well as the more extensive treatment herein) and the "Circuit of Being" which will be introduced in this final volume, I propose a model of economics which may correlate with a view of the physical universe of five dimensions as suggested by Theodor Kaluza. I suggest that these dichotomies may underlie the unity created by Kaluza’s work between General Relativity and Maxwell’s equations for electro-magnetism. If this is so, Oppositional Analysis and the economic and social history of the United States may provide a starting point from which we may learn important insights as to the inner workings of these economic and social oppositions as well oppositions of a more physical nature.

Keywords: Fifth dimension; Zeno’s Paradox; Russell’s Paradox; Parmenides; consciousness; unemployment; Okun’s Law; real GNP; crisis; prediction; mathematics; economic history; cycle; Kondratiev wave; long wave; Golden Mean; phi; pi; mathematic ratio; octave; music; political economy wave; Great Pyramid; Giza; Khufu; theory of everything; Kaluza; General Theory of Relativity; complexity; Parmenides (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A1 A19 A2 A29 B40 B41 B49 B5 B50 B59 C0 C00 C02 C4 C5 C50 C53 C54 P0 P00 P1 P2 P5 Y80 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013-02-15
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