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Adam Smith's The Invisible Hand: The Feedback Structure of Markets. From Sterman JD Business Dynamics p170 Fig 5-26. A price-mediated resource allocation system..

Clone of Price control mechanism
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Adapted from Hartmut Bossel's "System Zoo 3 Simulation Models, Economy, Society, Development."

​Population model where the population is summarized in four age groups (children, parents, older people, old people). Used as a base population model for dealing with issues such as employment, care for the elderly, pensions dynamics, etc.
Clone of Z602 Population with four age groups
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HANDY Model of Societal Collapse from Ecological Economics Paper 
see also D Cunha's model at IM-15085
Clone of Human and Nature Dynamics of Societal Inequality
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Investigations into the relationships responsible for the success and failure of nations. This investigation was prompted after reading numerous references on the subject and perceiving that *Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty* by Acemoglu and Robinson seem to make a great deal of sense.

Original model done for The Perspectives Project though recast into Kumu.
Why Nations Fail
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Simulating Hyperinflation for 3650 days.

If private bond holdings are going down and the government is running a big deficit then the central bank has to monetize bonds equal to the deficit plus the decrease in private bond holdings.  We don't show the details of the central bank buying bonds here, just the net results.

See blog at http://howfiatdies.blogspot.com for more on hyperinflation, including a hyperinflation FAQ.
Clone of Hyperinflation Simulation
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Goodwin business cycle model, modified from Keen and Blatt

Clone of Goodwin Business Cycle
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WIP Summary of MIchael Hudson's Book Killing the Host: How Financial Parasites and Debt destroy the Global Economy 
Clone of Killing the Host
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An initial study of the economics of single use coffee pods.
Clone of Coffee Pods ISD Humanities v 1.02
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Book Summary of The Great Transformation by Karl Polanyi see Wikipedia . See also more Karl Polanyi ideas IM-181325
Clone of The Great Transformation
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This model shows the structure and operation of a simple economy. It can represent economic systems at different levels of abstraction (e.g. a single good, a group of goods, multiple groups, & an "economy.")

In summary, lower rates of consumption (based on production) result in higher rates of production and consumption in the long-run. Rates of consumption over 100% of production will diminish the savings stock and eventually cause rates of production and consumption to fall.
Clone of Simple Economy: Model 6
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not a mathematical model. just a general one
impact of globalization
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Simulating Hyperinflation for 3650 days.

If private bond holdings are going down and the government is running a big deficit then the central bank has to monetize bonds equal to the deficit plus the decrease in private bond holdings.  We don't show the details of the central bank buying bonds here, just the net results.

See blog at http://howfiatdies.blogspot.com for more on hyperinflation, including a hyperinflation FAQ.
Clone of Hyperinflation Simulation
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The Logistic Map is a polynomial mapping (equivalently, recurrence relation) of degree 2, often cited as an archetypal example of how complex, chaotic behaviour can arise from very simple non-linear dynamical equations. The map was popularized in a seminal 1976 paper by the biologist Robert May, in part as a discrete-time demographic model analogous to the logistic equation first created by Pierre François Verhulst

Mathematically, the logistic map is written

where:

 is a number between zero and one, and represents the ratio of existing population to the maximum possible population at year n, and hence x0 represents the initial ratio of population to max. population (at year 0)r is a positive number, and represents a combined rate for reproduction and starvation. To generate a bifurcation diagram, set 'r base' to 2 and 'r ramp' to 1
To demonstrate sensitivity to initial conditions, try two runs with 'r base' set to 3 and 'Initial X' of 0.5 and 0.501, then look at first ~20 time steps

Clone of Clone of The Logistic Map
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Causal loop representations of macroeconomics taken from the System Dynamics literature contrasted with Forrester's main analysis of social and business organization layers See also Saeed's Forrester Econoics IM-183285
Clone of Macroeconomics causal loop diagrams
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An initial study of the economics of single use coffee pods.
Clone of Coffee Pods ISD Humanities v 1.02
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An initial study of the economics of single use coffee pods.
Clone of Coffee Pods ISD Humanities v 1.02
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An initial study of the economics of single use coffee pods.
Clone of Coffee Pods ISD Humanities v 1.02
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Adapted from Hartmut Bossel's "System Zoo 3 Simulation Models, Economy, Society, Development."

​Population model where the population is summarized in four age groups (children, parents, older people, old people). Used as a base population model for dealing with issues such as employment, care for the elderly, pensions dynamics, etc.
Clone of Clone of Z602 Population with four age groups
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I made this model to simulate how a companies sales will change depending on the lifetime of the appliances it manufactures. It also shows the accumulation of e-waste.
Lifetime simulation
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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.
Clone of Real Business Cycle Model (DSGE)
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Fig.5 Generic resource allocation structure from Khalil Saeed and Oleg Pavlov's Dynastic Cycles SD model paper  See also  the SD Model Insight
Dynastic Cycles Structure
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An initial study of the economics of single use coffee pods.
Clone of Coffee Pods ISD Humanities v 1.02
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An initial study of the economics of single use coffee pods.
Clone of Clone of Coffee Pods ISD Humanities v 1.02
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Adam Smith's The Invisible Hand: The Feedback Structure of Markets. From Sterman JD Business Dynamics p170 Fig 5-26. A price-mediated resource allocation system..

Clone of Price control mechanism