Real Shining City Economics
An inflationary economy is absolutely unnecessary and results in immense damage to the wealth created by a free-market. In fact, a price deflation economy can be an extraordinarily healthy economy.[1] This was the very economy of the United States during the Industrial Revolution. While prices did not decrease, as is illustrated by McCusker and Sahr’s research (see The Federal Reserve has Failed and Inflation is Destructive), they remained level, while the incomes of Americans actually increased dramatically.
In this sense, the Great Experiment had an amazing quasi-deflationary economy. This was driven by the massive increase in productivity and development of capital. America became the wealthiest civilization in the history of the world – unimaginable by any previous standard in history. The quasi-deflationary economy[2] of the United States created, as the Founders envisioned, the most unique society and economy in history.
This “sacred place,” a garden in the wilderness in a covenantal agreement with God, “had a special relationship with God and a providential destiny…[whose people] believed in an absolute, intervening deity who controlled and directed all the natural and human developments within the universe” and “considered itself to be the New Israel or to have world-affecting divine mission to perform.”
Colonial historian Jack Greene also reports that this belief carried to the brink of the Revolution. “By the 1770s,” writes Greene, “this ancient New England theme, the intellectual roots of which – in America – may be found in the puritans’ ambition of erecting a city upon a hill and in their conception of themselves as God’s chosen people, was becoming an American theme.”[3]
[1] For excellent presentation of the Federal Reserve’s impact on inflation and deflation see George Selgin, November 13, 2010, “The Coming Currency Crisis and the Downfall of the Dollar,” (Greenville, South Carolina: Mises Circle Conference, Furman University), [http://danieljmitchell.wordpress.com/2010/12/04/great-video-exposing-failures-of-the-federal-reserve/].
[2] For a detailed discussion on a deflationary economy see Jim Huntzinger, 2016, Deflation: The Road to Prosperity, (Indianapolis, IN: Lean Frontiers, inc.).
[3] Jack P. Greene, 1998, Pursuits of Happiness: The Social Development of Early Modern British Colonies and the Formation of American Culture, (Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press), pp. 203-204.
Originally published on Townhall Finance.
Jim Huntzinger began his career as a manufacturing engineer with Aisin Seiki (a Toyota Group company and manufacturer of automotive components) when they transplanted to North America to support Toyota. Over his career he has also researched at length the evolution of manufacturing in the United States with an emphasis on lean’s influence and development. In addition to his research on TWI, he has extensively researched the history of Ford’s Highland Park plant and its direct tie to Toyota’s business model and methods of operation.
Huntzinger is the President and Founder of Lean Frontiers and a graduate from Purdue University with a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering Technology and received a M.S. in Engineering Management from the Milwaukee School of Engineering. He authored the book, Lean Cost Management: Accounting for Lean by Establishing Flow, was a contributing author to Lean Accounting: Best Practices for Sustainable Integration.
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