How the machine works
Maths. Mechanics. Economics. No AI. No black box.
Mathanics is a deterministic economic literacy machine — a transmission simulator. The economy is not a calculator. It is a transmission system: levers move, channels carry the impulse, actors gain or pay, and stress accumulates somewhere.
The name is the method: mathematics + mechanics + economics → mathanics.
The four rules
What the machine will never do.
Deterministic
Same inputs always produce the same outputs. No randomness, no model drift, no retraining. Pull a lever twice and you get the same transmission twice — every time, forever.
No AI. No machine learning.
There are no trained weights, no inference, no statistical guessing. Nothing to hallucinate, nothing to retrain, nothing to drift. Every output is a direct consequence of an explicit rule.
Mechanical and conditional
Every transmission has a source and a destination, a first-round effect and a delayed effect, a winner and a loser. Outcomes are conditional on who is exposed and where the stress accumulates — never asserted as a single forecast number.
Transparent and auditable
Every channel on screen traces back to an explicit lever, actor and stress point. Open the transmission anatomy and read the mechanism. No black box, no proprietary magic, no exact macro-calculator claim.
What it is
- +A transmission simulator — lever → channel → actor → stress
- +An economic literacy machine for cause and effect
- +Qualitative magnitude bands, not free-form rate inputs
- +Strictly validated scenarios with explicit taxonomy
- +Compare mode across mapped active scenarios
What it is not
- −A forecast or prediction
- −A DSGE or calibrated macro model
- −A macro calculator with exact £bn answers
- −A trading signal or investment advice
- −An AI or LLM-powered system
Don't trust — verify
Open the transmission. Read the mechanism.
Inside the transmission machine, every scenario exposes its channels, actors and stress points. The £1 panel is a teaching device: it shows the first-round allocation of pressure, relief, cost, tax, import or dividend share — not a literal cashflow or forecast. If a scenario does not pass strict validation, it does not render.
For academics & economists
Help us extend the machine.
Mathanics is built in the open and welcomes scrutiny. If you research monetary economics, sectoral balances, post-Keynesian theory, MMT, banking mechanics, or stock-flow consistent modelling — we'd like your help. Tell us what's missing, what's wrong, or what module you'd like to co-author.
- · Which channel or stress point is missing?
- · Which scenario should the engine handle next?
- · Want to co-author a module (FX, banking, fiscal)?
- · Spotted an error in a transmission? Tell us.
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