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 Goodwin cycle IM-2010 with debt and taxes added, modified from Steve Keen's illustration of Hyman Minsky's Financial Instability Hypothesis "stability begets instability". This can be extended by adding the Ponzi effect of borrowing for speculative investment.

Clone of Minsky Financial Instability Model
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From Jay Forrester 1988 killian lectures youtube video describing system dynamics at MIT. For Concepts See IM-185226. For more detailed biography See Jay Forrester memorial webpage For MIT HIstory see IM-184930
System Dynamics Applications
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Description for Each Simulation Tag:

CRISIS:
- Price increasing dramatically, surpasses average detached home price of 3 million in 3 years if left unaddressed
- Housing Demand by potential buyer population will increase due to unmet financial means (Interest rate and price too high). To secure housing, the outflow is linked to price that is affected by supply and demand.
- Total occupied homes will decrease as empty homes purchased by foreign investors for "house flipping" increase and doubles within 5 years.

DEMAND:
-  Demand for housing in Vancouver will increase, but the amount of people motivated to buy with financial means "buyer population", will decrease in correlation.

SUPPLY:
- Prices do not follow traditional supply and demand concepts. Supply of houses on the market is increasing but, as shown, unable to sell because of unaffordability.

SYSTEMS MODEL LOGISTICS:
- Split into demand and supply with interlinked links
- Supply is a feedback system with sold houses branching off into empty housing or occupied housing
- All flows and stocks are linked with the intention that as market price changes, so will various system dynamics
- Used various functions to simulate a more diverse and accurate system

Sustainability: Economic (prices, housing market), Social (motivation to buy and sell)
Crisis Model - Vancouver Housing Crisis
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Health Determinants
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Community Economic Impact
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Plans
2 days ago
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This paper aims at describing a case where system dynamics modeling was used to evaluate the effects of information and material supply lead-time variation on sales contributions margins and operating cash conversion cycle of a commodity export business.  An empirical dynamic model, loaded with econometric theory of price effect on competitive demand, was used to describe the input data.  The model simulation outputs proved themselves relevant in analyzing the complex interconnections of multiple variables affecting  the profitability in a commercial routine, supporting the decision process among sales managers.

SDR Case study System dynamic modelling
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Class Economics
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Socio-Economic Model (final)
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Vicious economic circle of Aboriginal people
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From a March 2016 blog entry by Ari Andricopoulos
The economy simply explained
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Base_economics
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Difficulties with formulae and links
Problems with formulae and links
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This page provides a structural analysis of POTUS Candidate Jim Gilmore's economic policy based on the information at: http://www.gilmoreforamerica.com/jims-growth-code/  The method used is Integrative Propositional Analysis (IPA) available: ​ http://scipolicy.org/uploads/3/4/6/9/3469675/wallis_white_paper_-_the_ipa_answer_2014.12.11.pdf
DRAFT IPA of Jim Gilmore Economic Policy
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Final Project Socio-Economic Model
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first draft with forked supply demand example intact
Backup of Associative Economics - The Farmer, The baker and The Bread Eaters
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An initial study of the economics of single use coffee pods.
TENESPRESSO
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Lakon_Energy Economics Fossil Fuel
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This page provides a structural analysis of POTUS Candidate Ben Carson's economic policy based on the information at:<!--[if gte mso 9]> <![endif]-->

https://www.bencarson.com/issues/tax-reform/

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DRAFT IPA of Ben Carson economic policy
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A Model for COVID-19 outbreak
AT3
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Ocean/atmosphere/biosphere model tuned for interactive economics-based simulations from Y2k on.
Final Project
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This model illustrates the current practice and consequences of government spending. Following the direction of the arrows from right to left the model shows the following sequence based on current practice:

Government Spending at a certain point leads to spending in excess of tax receipts. This will automatically lead to the issue of treasuries in the belief that the excess spending must be financed by borrowing (although the government has the capacity to create  money). This in turn will increase the national debt.

 Consequences that follow from this practice:

1) That national debt increases whenever the government spends in excess of tax receipts.

2) That the government must pay interest on the debt issued, which in turn increases and reinforces the need for government spending.

3) That the interest paid on treasuries will increase private sector income.

There is an alternative view, supported by Modern Monetary Theory, of how government spending can proceed. Please see this  Insight: 

https://insightmaker.com/insight/19954

Government Spending (Current Practice)
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This is Figure 6 from Lancastle, N. (2012) 'Circuit Theory Extended: The Role of Speculation in Crises' based on Keen, S. (2010). Solving the Paradox of Monetary Profits.

http://www.economics-ejournal.org/economics/journalarticles/2012-34

Banks expand their lending, which in this model leads to higher production, wages and spending. The result is an increase in total spending.  
Keynesian Boost
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COVID Systemigram