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Ocean/atmosphere/biosphere model tuned for interactive economics-based simulations from Y2k on.
Lab 13 Scen 4
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integratrated solar  energy  economics  for  northeast brazil depend   consultant engs
Solar Energy - Efficiency economic s
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Ocean/atmosphere/biosphere model tuned for interactive economics-based simulations from Y2k on.
Last Lab, scenario 1
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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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Do you like travelling? Find out how we can help make it more sustainable!

Images used:
Suitcase: 
http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/animaljam/images/a/ab/Travel-suitcase_(1).png/revision/latest?cb=20140907211051
Fiji: http://cdn.newsapi.com.au/image/v1/91c1263a2a357b3673af8ff8362c0c8d?width=1024
Hotels:
https://taj.tajhotels.com/content/dam/luxury/hotels/taj-palace-delhi/images/master2/16x7/38849817-H1-Exterior_1-16x7.jpg
Poverty:
http://www.montana.edu/extensionecon/images/povertywordcloud.jpg
Leverage Point
https://image.slidesharecdn.com/genderinintegratedsystemsresearchbycynthiamcdougallseniorscientistgenderequitythemeleader-150311041710-conversion-gate01/95/gender-in-integrated-systems-research-by-cynthia-mcdougall-senior-scientist-gender-equity-theme-leader-25-638.jpg?cb=1426065542

Sources:
https://www.statista.com/statistics/270422/forecast-for-2020-arrivals-of-foreign-tourists-worldwide/

http://www.sustainabletourism.net

Week 10 Lecture- Dr. David Tindall Lecture pdf

https://www.adb.org/countries/fiji/poverty

Economic Impact of Tourism on Fiji's Economy: Empirical Evidence from Computable General Equilibrium Model by Paresh Kumar Narayan

https://www.wttc.org/-/media/files/reports/economic%20impact%20research/countries%202015/fiji2015.pdf

http://sustainabletravel.org/our-work/regional-alliances/pacific/hotel-sustainable-resources-pacific/

http://reusegraywater.com/about-us/

Rubin, K.E., The Valuation of Hotels and Motels for Assessment Purposes, 1984

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leverage-point_modeling

Meadows, D.H., & Wright, D. (2009). Thinking in systems: a primer, London: Earthscan.






Sustainable Tourism (Final)
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In CIV4 a City's Health stock is a flourishing yet complex condition which acts as a City attribute intended to limit growth. Positive and negative feedback impacts City Health flow and derives from many sources: city's site, buildings, wonders, civics, resources, population, etc. 

What drives this flow? When a cities unhealthiness is greater than its health limit, then for each point of population above the health limit consumes 3 food apiece rather than the standard 2 pieces. This further depletes city resources leading to starvation. In addition the city’s health also affects the rate at which it accumulates food. 


For example: too much growth causes overpopulation which leads to an unhealthy city. This unhealthy city leads to less food accumulation thereby resulting in starvation which further compounds the cities unhealthiness.
Civilization IV: City Health Modeling
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UBC EConomic lens
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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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A Model for COVID-19 outbreak
AT3
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From Bill Mitchell and Warren Mosler December2018 billy blog entry  and mosler's MMT white paper (google docs) 2019. Some highly aggregated stocks and flows and boundaries introduced.See also Feb 2026 updated insight
The essence of MMT
4 4 months ago
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This model is designed for the local government of Burnie, Tasmania, aiming to help with balancing COIVD-19 and economic impacts during a possible outbreak. 

The model has been developed based upon the SIR model (Susceptible, Infected, Recovered) model used in epidemiology. 

It lists several possible actions that can be taken by the government during a COVID-19 outbreak and provide the economic impact simulation. 

The model allow users to Change the government policies factors (Strength of Policies) and simulate the total economic impact.

Interestingly, the government plicies largely help with controlling the COVID outbreak. However, the stronger the policies are, the larger impact on local economy

Burnie Covid Model, Zilin Huang 533476
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Economic Loop D7
8 months ago
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This model simulates the economics of buying a home. It was created to compare buying a home against using investment returns to pay for rent.

Try cloning this insight, setting the parameter values for real-world scenarios, and then running sensitivity analysis (see tools) to determine the likely wealth outcomes. Compare buying a home to renting. Note that each run will keep the parameters the same while simulating market volatility.

version 1.8
Home buying simulation 1.8
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An initial study of the economics of single use coffee pods.
3 variables-- ORIGINAL Coffee Pods ISD Humanities v 1.02
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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.

Minsky Financial Instability Model
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This model attempts to illustrate a Strong Towns' perspective of municipal financing of our communities based on a development Growth Ponzi Scheme. http://www.strongtowns.org/the-growth-ponzi-scheme/ 

The communal economic investment by the community to help generate future economic prosperity and improve the community's quality of life. 

If the community generates greater economic prosperity as a result of the Near Term Cash either directly through increased Municipal Revenue or indirectly through the enhancement of Community Wealth Generators and Place Making improvements within the community then it is a desirable investment. 

If, however, it leads to ever increasing debt and the chasing of outside investments with the community as the means of collateral then it is a Growth Ponzi Scheme and the community needs to create some new paradigms to find a different path. 
Ponzi Growth Scheme Strong Towns
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From Greenhalgh et al article 2017 jimr Beyond Adoption: A New Framework for Theorizing and Evaluating Nonadoption, Abandonment, and Challenges to the Scale-Up, Spread, and Sustainability of Health and Care Technologies 
NASSS Technology Adoption Framework
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Part 2 of Lab 1
Van Dusen_Energy Economics and Fossil Fuel
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This model simulates the economics of buying a home. It was created to compare buying a home against using investment returns to pay for rent. According to Micheal Finke, house prices typically run 20x monthly rental rates. 

Try cloning this insight, setting the parameter values for real-world scenarios, and then running sensitivity analysis (see tools) to determine the likely wealth outcomes. Compare buying a home to renting. Note that each run will keep the parameters the same while simulating market volatility.

version 2.0
Home buying simulation 2.0
8 months ago
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Semirara island Casual Loop Diagram
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Clone of Video Game Economics
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Economic Simulation
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Environmental, social, and economic strategy integration for better business ideas