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if you know the whole economic system,
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how to solve for equilibrium.
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To figure out from the primitives of people's tastes,
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their impatience, the technology, the economy,
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how to figure out the real rate of interest if provided there is no uncertainty in the world
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and people can forecast what is going to happen later.
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We've found that once you've done that,
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the price of every asset,
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if people are rational and looking forward to the future,
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the price of every asset is going to be the present value of the future payments of the asset.
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So if you think of the payments as real payments
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which is what Fisher always recommended,