Triple Curve
The Triple Curve or "typical collapse function" illustrates the growth of financial aggregates at the expense of the physical economy and how this leads to a bubble economy which will inevitably collapse. Speculative gains in financial markets are sustained by diverting monetary flows out of the real economy, into financial markets.
This is sustained, increasingly, by looting the economic basis through large-scale attrition in basic economic infrastructure, and by driving down the net after-inflation prices paid for wages and production of operatives. Thus, we see above a hyperbolic curve, upward, of financial aggregates; a slower, but also hyperbolic curve, upward, of monetary aggregate needed to sustain the financial bubble; and, an accelerating, downward, curve in net per-capita real output. This reflects the accelerated looting of the physical economy's base to sustain the financial bubble.
Internationally known economist Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. developed this concept, which was an outgrowth of his original discoveries of physical principle, dating from a project he conducted during the late 1940s and early 1950s. These discoveries arose out of his opposition to Bertrand Russell devotee Norbert Wiener's efforts, as in the latter's 1948 "Cybernetics," to apply so-called "information theory" to communication of ideas. As part of that same project, he also opposed Russell devotee John von Neumann's efforts to degrade real economic processes to solutions for systems of simultaneous linear inequalities.