MATHANICS®
Economic literacy machine

See how a policy decision
actually travels through the economy.

Pick a lever. Watch the shock route through markets, institutions and actors — who gains, who loses, when inflation moves, where stress begins.

Not a forecast. Not a calculator. A transmission map — labelled, qualitative, and shareable.

Mathanical Motion
NOT A FORECAST
Active
What public debate collapses into
rates up = bad
spending up = inflation
tax cuts = growth
energy prices up = blame government
The reality

Mechanical and conditional.

The same lever can help one actor, hurt another, and change meaning entirely depending on the starting conditions. Direction and pressure are the truth — not exact numbers, not forecasts, not slogans.No paywall. No financial advice. No forecasts.Just a clearer way to see where economic pressure lands.
From slogans to mechanics

The real economy is mechanical and conditional.

The same lever can help one actor, hurt another, and change meaning entirely depending on the starting conditions. Public debate collapses that into slogans. This machine unfolds it into channels.

First-roundimmediate effect
Delayedquarters later
Distributionalwinners vs losers
Thresholdcrisis boundary
Shock signature
3-second read

Minimum Viable Soul®

Before you read a full transmission, you get a compact visual summary of the shock's shape — its source, its direction, who it lands on, and its inequality tilt.

Bank Rate RisePressure

Rates rise → Debt service and saving shift squeeze borrowers and weak buffers.

FromBank of England
Lands onBorrowers
Offset Savers gain interest income

Tilt · Low-income households with debt feel it first.

Energy ShockPressure

Energy prices spike → Essentials absorb the hit, discretionary spending collapses.

FromGlobal markets
Lands onHouseholds
Offset Energy producers gain revenue

Tilt · Low-income and rural households are hit hardest.

Productivity GainTwo-sided

Output per worker rises → Gains split between firms, workers, consumers and government.

FromTechnology / efficiency
Lands onFirms / workers
Offset Consumers get lower prices

Tilt · Who captures the gain depends on bargaining power.

Every active scenario carries a soul. No raw numbers. No ledger jargon. Just the shape of the shock.

How it works
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1

Choose a lever

A rate move, a tax, an energy shock, a credit rule, a productivity gain.

2

Follow the transmission

First-round effect, delayed effect, behaviours, stress points, inflation signal.

3

Compare

Who gains, who loses, when inflation moves, where stress begins.

What this is

This is not an economic calculator. It is an economic literacy machine.

Mathanics reveals how a shock travels through markets, institutions and actors. Every output is a labelled transmission channel — not an inferred prediction, not a black-box forecast.

Conditional

Same lever, different outcome depending on starting state.

Direction-first

Pressure and relief matter more than exact scale.

Transparent

Every claim traces to a labelled mechanism, not a black box.

Teaching, not trading

Built for literacy, not investment advice.

For academics & economists

Help us extend the machine.

Researching monetary economics, sectoral balances, MMT, post-Keynesian theory, or stock-flow consistent modelling? Tell us what's missing, what's wrong, or what module you'd like to co-author.

Why Mathanics exists

The economy transmits. The question is who feels the pressure, who catches the relief, and when the signal flips.

Balance is not fairness. Equilibrium is not equality. A transmission map shows who gains, who pays, and where the stress builds — not by guessing the future, but by tracing the path a shock takes through the system.

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Distinct Approach

Most economics tools try to predict the future and argue about theory. Mathanics doesn't. It shows the mechanics: which way the impulse runs, who sits at the receiving end, and which channels repeat every time the same lever is pulled.

Scenario-basedEach lever is a shock with its own anatomy.
Actor-levelWinners, losers, and the ones in between.
Cause and effectNot a forecast.
Stress-awareWhere manageable becomes crisis.
About this tool

The economy is not hard because people are stupid. It is hard because every lever has a first-round effect, a delayed effect, a winner, a loser, a false winner, a distributional twist, an inflation signal, a financial-market response, and a threshold where manageable becomes crisis.

Public debate collapses that into slogans — rates up = bad, spending up = inflation, tax cuts = growth, energy prices up = blame government. The real economy is mechanical and conditional. The same lever can help one actor, hurt another, and change meaning entirely depending on the starting conditions.

This app reveals how the shock travels. It is not an economic calculator. It is an economic literacy machine.

  1. 1 · Choose a lever

    A rate move, a tax, an energy shock, a credit rule.

  2. 2 · Follow the transmission

    First-round effect, delayed effect, behaviours, stress points.

  3. 3 · Compare

    Who gains, who loses, when inflation moves, where stress begins.

The £1 you will see is not a literal cash trace. It is a scenario-specific allocation of pressure, relief, cost, tax, import or dividend — a teaching device, not a forecast.

Transmission simulator — not an exact macro calculator. The £1 is a teaching metaphor for first-round pressure, not a literal money flow and not money received. Numbers are qualitative weights, not forecasts.

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The economy is not a calculator.
It is a transmission system.

Every scenario is a labelled transmission path — first-round effect, delayed effect, winners, losers, inflation signal, and the threshold where manageable becomes crisis. Nothing is hidden. Nothing is a forecast.