Based on EMIS Framework v0.2.0

Economics is not about Money. It is about how Energy is captured, structured, and allocated over Time.

Economics Index - 20 Core Concepts

This index does not attempt to “explain economic phenomena” in the traditional sense. Instead, it replaces the underlying variable system of economics.

Switching from:
“Preferences, Utility, Equilibrium”

To:
“Energy, Structure, Time Selection”

1. [Inflation]

  • Legacy Definition: Sustained increase in price levels due to money supply or demand.
  • EMIS Definition: Decoupling of the Token Layer from the Physical Energy Layer.
  • EMIS Code: 
    def is_inflation(economy):
    # Inflation = Token Delta > Energy Capture Delta
    return d(Token_Supply) / dt > d(Real_Energy_Capture) / dt

2. [Money]

  • Legacy Definition: Medium of exchange, store of value.
  • EMIS Definition: A generic interface for invoking energy across time and structure.
  • EMIS Code: 
    interface Money {
    // Money is a claim on future energy
    claim_energy(amount: number, time: Future): Energy;
}

3. [Price]

  • Legacy Definition: Equilibrium of supply and demand.
  • EMIS Definition: The impedance (resistance) signal of accessing energy within a specific structure.
  • EMIS Code: 
    Price = Energy_Cost / Structural_Efficiency
# Low efficiency structure -> High Price (High Impedance)

4. [Value]

  • Legacy Definition: Utility or subjective preference.
  • EMIS Definition: The capacity of a structure to reduce local entropy (save energy).
  • EMIS Code: 
    Value(structure) = -d(Entropy_Local) / dt
# Value is Negentropy rate

5. [Efficiency]

  • Legacy Definition: Optimal allocation of resources.
  • EMIS Definition: Ratio of functional output to energy dissipation.
  • EMIS Code: 
    Efficiency = Function_Output / (Energy_Input + Heat_Loss)

6. [Growth]

  • Legacy Definition: Increase in GDP.
  • EMIS Definition: Increase in the system’s capacity to structure energy flows.
  • EMIS Code: 
    Growth = d(Structured_Energy_Stock) / dt
# Not just flow, but structured stock

7. [Production]

  • Legacy Definition: Creating goods/services using labor and capital.
  • EMIS Definition: The process of encoding Information into Matter using Energy.
  • EMIS Code: 
    Production(Raw_Matter, Info) -> Structured_Matter:
    consume(Energy)
    return Matter.inject(Info)

8. [Consumption]

  • Legacy Definition: Utilizing goods/services.
  • EMIS Definition: The release of stored energy structure into heat (dissipation).
  • EMIS Code: 
    Consumption(Structure) -> Heat:
    Entropy += Structure.dissolve()

9. [Saving]

  • Legacy Definition: Income not consumed.
  • EMIS Definition: Latent energy potential stored for future allocation.
  • EMIS Code: 
    Saving = integral(Energy_Capture - Energy_Dissipation, dt)

10. [Investment]

  • Legacy Definition: Allocating money for future profit.
  • EMIS Definition: Injecting energy to build higher-order negative entropy structures.
  • EMIS Code: 
    Investment(Energy) -> New_Structure:
    if New_Structure.efficiency > Current_Structure.efficiency:
        return Profit

11. [Capital]

  • Legacy Definition: Assets used for production.
  • EMIS Definition: A crystallized structure capable of capturing external energy streams.
  • EMIS Code: 
    class Capital extends Structure {
    capture_energy(environment): Flow;
}

12. [Labor]

  • Legacy Definition: Human effort in production.
  • EMIS Definition: The biological API for converting chemical energy into physical work.
  • EMIS Code: 
    Labor = Bio_System.execute(Work_Command)

13. [Technology]

  • Legacy Definition: Application of scientific knowledge.
  • EMIS Definition: An algorithm to minimize the resistance of energy paths.
  • EMIS Code: 
    Technology = minimize(Path_Resistance(Energy_Source, Goal))

14. [Market]

  • Legacy Definition: Place where buyers and sellers meet.
  • EMIS Definition: A distributed protocol for signal synchronization (Price Discovery).
  • EMIS Code: 
    Market = Distributed_Network.sync(Signal_Price)

15. [Competition]

  • Legacy Definition: Rivalry for profit.
  • EMIS Definition: Evolutionary selection pressure on structures for maximum energy capture.
  • EMIS Code: 
    while True:
    if Structure_A.capture_rate > Structure_B.capture_rate:
        Structure_B.die() # Natural Selection

16. [Monopoly]

  • Legacy Definition: Exclusive control of supply.
  • EMIS Definition: Artificial high-impedance barrier erected around an energy source.
  • EMIS Code: 
    Monopoly = Barrier(Energy_Source).set_permission(Only_Me)

17. [Risk] (风险)

  • Legacy Definition: Probability of loss.
  • EMIS Definition: The entropy (uncertainty) of future energy return paths.
  • EMIS Code: 
    Risk = Entropy(Future_Energy_Paths)
# Higher entropy = Higher unpredictability

18. [Inequality]

  • Legacy Definition: Unequal distribution of income.
  • EMIS Definition: The inevitable result of Pareto distribution in multiplicative energy systems (Yakovenko).
  • EMIS Code: 
    Inequality = PowerLaw(Capital_Accumulation)
# Result of multiplicative dynamics, not additive

19. [Crisis]

  • Legacy Definition: Economic downturn.
  • EMIS Definition: Phase transition failure. The structure is too rigid to handle energy flux volatility.
  • EMIS Code: 
    if Energy_Fluctuation > Structure.elasticity:
    raise SystemCollapseError("Crisis Initiated")

20. [Economy]

  • Legacy Definition: System of production and consumption.
  • EMIS Definition: The aggregate metabolism of a civilization.
  • EMIS Code: 
    Economy = sum(all_structures.metabolism())

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