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.
Mechanical and conditional.
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.
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.
Rates rise → Debt service and saving shift squeeze borrowers and weak buffers.
Tilt · Low-income households with debt feel it first.
Energy prices spike → Essentials absorb the hit, discretionary spending collapses.
Tilt · Low-income and rural households are hit hardest.
Output per worker rises → Gains split between firms, workers, consumers and government.
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.
Choose a lever
A rate move, a tax, an energy shock, a credit rule, a productivity gain.
Follow the transmission
First-round effect, delayed effect, behaviours, stress points, inflation signal.
Compare
Who gains, who loses, when inflation moves, where stress begins.
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.
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.
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.
READ THE THESIS →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.
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 · Choose a lever
A rate move, a tax, an energy shock, a credit rule.
- 2 · Follow the transmission
First-round effect, delayed effect, behaviours, stress points.
- 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.
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.