This is an initial solution-design response to several elements of Jacob's document "Design for Modeling Earth Reserve in the Economic Petri Dish V1"[[https://xalgorithms.redminepro.net/attachments/download/21/Design%20to%20Model%20Earth%20Reserve%20Index%20within%20Economic%20Petri%20Dish%20V1.pdf]]]
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https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1r_GR5G7h6A2VVZAnahNvtdMXMvYQwrcF1nq-1poRWsQ/edit

Two firm contracting flowchart - Aug 10, 2020

Dosi et al flowchart - Aug 18, 2020
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2021-11-12¶

I started working on implementing the earth reserve index in the economic petri dish today. I ended up only working on preliminary stuff:

• programmatically adjusting the world size based on the number of primary good firms so that the top row of patches will represent the land that each primary primary firm works on ...

Wage related¶

Make wage-rate an employment-link variable. Then, when a firm changes its wage rate, this only affects new employees, not existing ones. This would likely have a significant impact on how quickly wages move around and whether or not they track labor value. ...

Merging changes¶

• Will's tests

ERi¶

• Finish implementing the ERi

Prices vs labor value¶

• Is it concerning that there is such a big difference between prices and labor value? Experiments didn't give a lot of insight into why.
• Another factor is how easy it is for firms to lay off workers. ...

Week of May 24th/May 30th
Consolidated Dahlem Guidelines for tabular standards and wrote in documentation for the indices. I also helped Jake with modeling questions.
Prepped for model demo.
Wrapped up work for this quarter.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1kt3htJE5rOaDf5tO0LANBpudk_NwP1XNPl8QRU-mdYk/edit#
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