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It has been a long-tme me-myself thinking (I am in Ego mode sorry) that we do nto knwo a jot about economy after Keynnes because the eocnomy is so different that the object of analysis has never really been studied.

It is thus necessary to study te economy properly... and one of my old crazy let's make economics a science again proposals was to ahve a flow chart with all the money in all thje forms.. not only M! and 2 and 3.. and the rest.. but the real flow of money...the units would be all the industries (porbably up tp 200 differnt types of industries and units fof commerce), bank instruments and accounts (maybe around 200 over there), then another 200 to divide the population in different greoups and structures.. and then measure the flows..

Int his way you would know exatly what th emoney is going to do if you reduce or increase taxes...

The only problem with flow chart is that some of the boxes would be outside of the country under consideration.. but I guess youc an model it with a simple flow adn assumption .. though this ould not be the case with the big blocks... the number of US dollars abroas iaextremelly important...but ideally you woudl do the sam ehting for all the money abroas and what it is doing.

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I therefore claim to show, not how men think in myths, but how myths operate in men's minds without their being aware of the fact. Levi-Strauss, Claude

by kcurie on Sun Jan 27th, 2008 at 12:12:48 PM EST
kcurie:
It is thus necessary to study te economy properly... and one of my old crazy let's make economics a science again proposals was to ahve a flow chart with all the money in all thje forms.. not only M! and 2 and 3.. and the rest.. but the real flow of money...the units would be all the industries (porbably up tp 200 differnt types of industries and units fof commerce), bank instruments and accounts (maybe around 200 over there), then another 200 to divide the population in different greoups and structures.. and then measure the flows..
You might want to look at the Leontieff Input/Output model.

We have met the enemy, and he is us — Pogo
by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Mon Jan 28th, 2008 at 08:48:49 AM EST
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Expanding ont his on this would be interesting..

 In 2003, Mohammad Gani[1], a pupil of Leontief, introduced Consistency Analysis in his book 'Foundations of Economic Science' (ISBN 984320655X), which formally looks exactly like the input-output table, but explores the dependency relations in terms of payments and intermediation relations.

But it has been never pushed to a "physics level" of effort... not only industries but different groups of people employed....and not employed....income segreagates, place of living... education....

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I therefore claim to show, not how men think in myths, but how myths operate in men's minds without their being aware of the fact. Levi-Strauss, Claude

by kcurie on Mon Jan 28th, 2008 at 10:35:21 AM EST
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kcurie:
But it has been never pushed to a "physics level" of effort... not only industries but different groups of people employed....and not employed....income segreagates, place of living... education....
The problem is with the data collection here. I believe some national economic statistics institutes may have had some of the best I/O models even compiled. There was a comment by NBBooks hinting at the fact that the US may have lost their models and data since Reaganomics.

We have met the enemy, and he is us — Pogo
by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Mon Jan 28th, 2008 at 10:42:50 AM EST
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See also (Yet another) probably incredibly unreadable modelling thread by Migeru on November 18th, 2006.

We have met the enemy, and he is us — Pogo
by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Mon Jan 28th, 2008 at 10:44:40 AM EST
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