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WIP Dynamic map from Steve Keen's Minsky at 100 Lecture video and slides and later Emergent Macroeconomics papers
Minsky Instability from Macrodefinitions Keen
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Book Summary of The Great Transformation by Karl Polanyi see Wikipedia . See also more Karl Polanyi ideas IM-181325
The Great Transformation
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A simple model for cc adoption which depends on several condions.
Cloud Computing adoptation
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Buying and storing electricity when it is cheap, and selling it when it is expensive. What are the benefits, both public and private?

Smart Grid: Electricity storage and variable energy pricing
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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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Simple epidemiological model for Burnie, Tasmania
SIR: Susceptible to infection - Infected - Recovery, Government responses and Economic impacts  

Government policy is activated when there are 10 or fewer reported cases of COVID-19. The more people tested, the fewer people became infected. So the government's policy is to reduce infections by increasing the number of people tested and starting early. At the same time, it has slowed the economic growth (which, according to the model,  will stop for next 52 weeks).
Model of Covid-19 Outbreak in Burnie, Tasmania (Yue Xiang 512994)
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Ocean/atmosphere/biosphere model tuned for interactive economics-based simulations from Y2k on.
Final Project 1 W/ Socio-Economic Factors
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This Model was developed from the SEIR Model (Susceptible, Exposed, Infected, Recovered) and it predicts the COVID-19 outbreak in Burnie, Tasmania. This pandemic outbreak contributes to diverse rates including infection rate, death rates and recovery rate, government policies and its economic impacts.    

Assumptions:

 This model is driven by its determined rates, e.g., incubation rate, morality rate, test rate and immunity loss rate and its recovery rate.

Government policies are involved in fully vaccination rate, social distance, national border closure, travel, and business restriction which effect Burnie’s economy.

There are three economic entities dimensions in Burnie Island, we can tell that the pandemic has negative impact on Brick-and-Mortar enterprises and tourism business to some extent, whereas, e commercial business plays a crucial role to stimulate the regional economic activities during the COVID-19 period.

 

Interesting Insights:

 The figure of susceptible changes significantly during the initial 3 weeks because of low recovery rate and high infection rate. On the other hand, the implementation and interventions of government policies is effective, because the number of patients who tested negative is increased and the majority of them release and go back home after medical follow-up. 

Xueli Huang 501514, BMA708 Model of COVID-19 Outbreak in Burnie, Tasmania
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This model shows the operation of a simple economy. It demonstrates the effect of changes in the fractional rate of consumption (or the converse, the fractional rate of saving.) It also, unlike Models 2 & 3, shows the influence Savings has on the production rate.

In summary, lower rates of consumption (based on production) result in higher rates of both production and consumption in the long-run.
Simple Economy: Model 4
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Economic contibution
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Smithian growth model from Michael Joffe Fig. 3.7 p57 Ch3 Feedback Economics Book
Adam Smith's Growth through Division of labour
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An attempt to combine ideas from Joe Stiglitz's Book The Price of Inequality, Peter Turchin's book Secular Cycles and Khalil Saeed and Oleg Pavlov's Dynastic Cycles SD model paper
Inequality Crisis and Secular Cycles
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Sustainability issue: Unlimited Residential Water Usage

Environmental (Blue): 
Follow the flow of fresh water from the natural reservoirs (Capilano, Symour and Coquitlam reservoir) into residential homes, and how it is used up and returned back into the environment. Notice that a percentage of water that leaves the reservoir is not returned. Climate change is an added impact into the system once air pollution created by an increasing population rises beyond a threshold. Warming of the Earth reduces snowfall returns, thus further reducing snow melt back into natural water reservoirs. 

Social (Yellow): Increasing population acts as the main trigger for decreasing natural water reservoirs as this increases total water usage of the city. The population growth is capped with an increase of 30%.

Economic (Green): The amount of money spent on the water system is depicted here with inflow being money collected from each household (flat rate of $1500 per year) and the outflow being the money spent on installation of water meters and water treatment. 

ISCI 360 Project I (problem): Unlimited Residential Water Usage
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This model demonstrate how the exisitng tested COVID cases effects economic recovery via goverment intervenes.
Assumption:Goverment intervenes positively contribute on transmission, patients recovery, and death elimination. When existing cases equal or lower than 10 cases, economic growth will be soaring with helps of influencial elements.
Interesting points: even though there are certain amount of unknow cases, enhancing social restriction and increasing test rate ould still reduce amount of cases
Complex Model to Simulate How COVID Outbreak Influence Economic Recovery in Burnie
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Implementation of a DSGE Model solved in a Macroeconomics class by Harald Uhlig (link), using Rational Expectations, in this case, the Hansens Real Business Cycle Model.
It shows the capacity of implementing Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium Model Analysis using System Dynamics.
Real Business Cycle Model (DSGE)
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The macroeconomic ruel: SPENDING = INCOME = OUTPUT, WHICH DRIVES EMPLOYMENT is presented here in a schematic form. Output can be taken to be equivalent to  GDP. In order to maintain output it is necessary for all the income earned to be spent. If this is not the case, then companies find they have excess unsold stock on their hands and will cut back on production. This, in time, will lead to an increase in unemployment as companies need fewer employees. The shortfall in spending can be made up by any of the three sectors that contribute to total output. However, in cases where  a country has a trade deficit and where the private sector is not spending or investing enough, the only option is for the government to Net Spend i.e. to spend more than it collected in taxes causing a fiscal deficit.

Investment and Output 1
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Ocean/atmosphere/biosphere model tuned for interactive economics-based simulations from Y2k on.
Q2 Final Project w/ socio-economic
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MONEY_People, Experts. Knowledge IPN_Model2_Oscillations_0.1.7
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​Farmers use intensive pesticides to harvest cotton, which is harmful to not only the health of the farmers using them, but also our environment as it pollutes rivers and groundwater that negatively interfere with the ecosystem. Even though these farmers know of the health and environmental risks, they still use harmful pesticides to produce cotton, but why is this so. This stock and flow map should explain what impacts farmers to use pesticides to grow cotton despite the risks and explain the cause and effect relationship their use has on the cotton industry and the environment.
According to Clevo Wilson and Clem Tisdell article, "Why farmer continue to use pesticides despite environmental, health and sustainable costs,"

Pesticide use by farmers:
  • "used to reduce yield losses to pests"
  • "avoid economic losses to ensure economical survival"
  • "increase supply market and reduce market prices"
  • "ignorance of sustainable use"
  • "integral part of commercially grow high yielding varieties so without use, high yields may not be sustained"
  • "damage to agriculture land from the use occurs over long period of time so costs may not look serious short term, but reduces economic welfare in long term"
  • "environmental damage: pollutes rivers and groundwater, destroys beneficial predators and interferes with ecosystem overall"
  • "health risks underestimated"
  • "chemical companies selling it have incentive to push their use by advertising and promotion" (1,9).
Farmer Pesticide Use On Cotton
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Unfortunately, this model only produces the illusion of functioning, but I did manage to get it to give me the graph. However, because of the use of flows, if you change the time step to and the simulation length to anything other than the same numbers, you'll find the graph showing something that looks more exponential. This is due to the function referencing itself in regards to time, so inevitably each time consumption grows it changes the outcome on the other side of the equation. Still, this is a convincing mock up. I added a "45 degree" line so that one could conceivably see (and also change) the difference made by altering the level of autonomous consumption.
Keynesian Macroeconomics
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Based on chapter 14 of Modeling Dynamic Economic Systems
Quasi-competitive equilibrium model
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Insight Stage 4 Dress Rehearsal Economy and Fossil Fuels
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Assignment 1_Exercise 7 - Adding First Order Control