HOME PAGE OF VICENTE MARASIGAN

Thank you for visiting my home page. In the photo, I am second from the right. I am in the kimono robe of a patient in the Lucas Infirmary of the Loyola House of Studies.

I was born in Manila in November 1918.

In later years, I have received a master’s degree in philosophy, a master’s degree in mathematics, and a licentiate degree in theology,

from three Jesuit universties, Ateneo de Manila, Fordham and Georgetown (Woodstock).

I became interested in Lonergan’s thought after first reading chapters 4 and 5 of Insight.

(At least one of the links below has been updated Jan. 30, 2004)

| Emergent Probability & MD |

My present interest in his works in economics arose from a "preferential option for the poor" emphasized in lectures here at the Loyola School of Theology.

The praxis component of Lonergan’s theology is his

Macroeconomic Dynamics: An Essay in Circulation Analysis.

In my initial attempt to understand this work, I was immediately attracted to his

"Diagram of Rates of Flow"

said (by editor Hefling on p. xv) to be "the hinge" on which the Essay turns.

I asked experts in computer simulation to try Java graphics as a visual aid in understanding section 13 on the "Rates of Payments and Transfer" (on pages 45 to 55). A start has been made in a Java simulation (v0.14). But this v0.14 is in need of ongoing modifications as further insights into Lonergan's meanings occur. These insights will be included in future versions of the Java simulation

In particular, the notion of acceleration is in need of being corrected and mathematically linked to the parameters in the diagram.

One difficulty is the time lag between expansion phases of the surplus stage and of the basic stage.The difficulty arises from the prior need of statistical analysis to determine whether a macroeconmic situation is at a phase of surplus expansion or of a basic expansion.

Such analysis will require that global databases be wired together to enable

PARALLEL PROCESSING.