DCML Digest, Vol 30, Issue 17

[asaramelli]

Niels and Daniel 

Very good your analysis about Duckburg "closed economy" ! 

In 1920s... and 1930s... in the State of São Paulo Brazil, 
we have a very good example of closed economy (based in only a few rich mans 
), with the count Francisco Matarazzo, 
an italian inmigrant who turned a very rich man, really dominated the 
Brazilian Market ( I say Brazilian, because the São Paulo´s state was and is 
the strongest economy in Brazil ), and in many aspects, his life is very 
near of our Uncle Scrooge Life. 

Count Francisco Matarazzo was an incredible business man, who used to see in 
1920s... and 1930s... businesses tactics only are being  aplicated now, and, 
in a world without financial electronics based services, he used the " 
humanware" technics. 

I´m going to write more about Francisco Matarazzo, many stories can inspire 
ideas for new adventures for Mr Uncle Scrooge , or as We call in Brazil Sr. 
Tio Patinhas ! 

Alexandre Saramelli 














Daniël wrote: 
There's a Barks 1950s ten-pager about Scrooge spending money to get rid of 
it (WDC 144), a plan that fails because Scrooge unconsciously spends it to 
his own factories and businesses, so that he gets almost the same big 
surplus of money at the end. 
Would this model work that way in real life, or did Barks use a huge 
artistic liberty to tell the story? If one would spend money at his/her own 
business, then a lot of money would be spend in the costs of the production, 
wouldn't it? Then how can Scrooge get almost the same money at the end? 

If Scrooge owns the car factories and restaurants, he probably also owns the 
businesses that supply them - and their suppliers etc. etc. And when 
Scrooge's employees spend their (meagre) wages, they buy McDuck cars and eat 
at McDuck restaurants. 
In theory the story would work for a closed economy (i.e. few imports) where 
the consumers have a very low savings rate (i.e. they spend all their money) 
and where one producer (=Scrooge) dominates the market (i.e. supplies 
consumers with most of the goods they demand). So maybe if the US economy 
was like that 
in the 1950s.... 

Kind regards 
Niels