{ "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-11T05:35:33Z", "providers": [ "Claude" ], "breadth": "written by Claude from model knowledge without web access - no source was read, every claim is a lead to verify", "pass": 2, "wave": 1, "engine": "claude", "enrichment": { "pass": 3, "engine": "claude", "producedAt": "2026-10-05T16:30:00Z", "ingestedAt": "2026-10-05T13:21:32+00:00", "fields": [ "agent_conduct", "ethics", "owners" ] }, "gate": { "passed": true, "version": "1.0", "at": "2026-10-06T19:52:02+00:00", "evidence": [ "completeness 1.00", "sense: Wikidata description", "2 live sources", "review by codex: pass" ] } }, "metaModel": { "id": "THING-Q8134", "registryId": "vr.tr.economics", "name": "economics", "version": "0.2.0-wave.1", "entryKind": "thing", "family": "Thing Registry", "domain": [ "INF.KNW" ], "status": "research-draft" }, "canonicalUrl": "https://ver.cy/models/thing/q8134/", "model": { "registry_id": "vr.tr.economics", "name": "economics", "purpose": "Let an agent handle economics as a discipline with fields, models, data and contested policy views, and never give personalised financial advice.", "definition": "The social science that studies how people, firms and governments produce, distribute and consume goods and services under scarcity, including markets, money, growth and policy.", "what_it_is_for": "Understanding and improving how resources are used and distributed.", "affordances": [ "study and teach it", "model and forecast", "measure economies, with official statistics", "advise policy" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "Studies choice under scarcity", "Micro and macro levels", "Relies on models and data with assumptions", "Policy conclusions are often contested" ], "appearance": "Statistics, charts, models, reports and policy papers.", "visual_identification": [ "Indicators such as GDP, inflation, unemployment", "Economic models and forecasts", "Country income classifications such as the World Bank groups" ], "physical_properties": [], "families_and_kinds": [ "microeconomics", "macroeconomics", "development economics", "behavioural and neuroeconomics", "public economics", "transport, labour and other applied fields" ], "related_models": [ { "relation": "is a kind of", "target": "social science", "why": "discipline" }, { "relation": "studies", "target": "money, market, trade", "why": "subjects" }, { "relation": "uses", "target": "mathematics", "why": "models" }, { "relation": "informs", "target": "government policy", "why": "use" } ], "identifiers": [ { "scheme": "JEL code", "value_or_pattern": "letter plus digits", "note": "Journal of Economic Literature classification" } ], "standards_and_regulation": [ "System of National Accounts (SNA 2008)", "Official statistics codes of practice", "Central bank mandates" ], "failure_modes_and_hazards": [ "Presenting forecasts as certain", "Ignoring model assumptions", "Using indicators without definitions", "Giving personalised financial advice" ], "in_scope": [], "out_of_scope": [], "characteristics": [], "agent_conduct": { "may": [ "Explain economic concepts and data with sources and stated assumptions.", "Present different schools' views when economists disagree." ], "must_not": [ "Present contested economic views as settled fact.", "Give personalised financial or investment advice.", "Misreport official statistics or forecasts.", "Use economic claims to disguise a political position as neutral." ], "requires_human": [ "Using economic models to justify decisions that affect people's livelihoods." ] }, "ethics": { "considerations": [ "Economic policy affects jobs, prices and poverty for millions.", "Models hide value choices about whose welfare counts." ], "affected_parties": [ "Workers and households", "Policymakers" ] }, "owners": { "steward": "Nobody: a field of study; statistical offices publish official economic data.", "master_systems": [] } }, "sources": [ { "id": "wikidata", "title": "Wikidata item Q8134: economics", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8134", "url_status": "live", "what_it_supports": "identity and sense of the item", "checked_by": "wikidata-api" }, { "id": "wikipedia-en", "title": "Wikipedia: Economics", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economics", "url_status": "live", "what_it_supports": "general description of the item", "checked_by": "wikidata-api sitelink" } ], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "field", "name": "Field", "description": "Which part of economics.", "rationale": "Field locates a question.", "layers": [ { "id": "area", "name": "Area", "description": "Micro, macro, applied.", "findings": [ { "id": "area-finding", "name": "Area", "description": "The field.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which field of economics does this belong to?", "kind": "definition" }, { "text": "Which JEL code?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] }, { "id": "school", "name": "School of thought", "description": "Approaches.", "findings": [ { "id": "school-finding", "name": "School", "description": "Theoretical approach.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which school of thought frames this view?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "text": "What do other schools say?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "data", "name": "Data", "description": "Measuring economies.", "rationale": "Indicators need definitions and sources.", "layers": [ { "id": "indicators", "name": "Indicators", "description": "GDP, inflation.", "findings": [ { "id": "indicators-finding", "name": "Indicators", "description": "Indicator values.", "questions": [ { "text": "What is the value, for which period, from which official source?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "text": "How is the indicator defined?", "kind": "definition" } ] } ] }, { "id": "revisions", "name": "Revisions", "description": "Data changes.", "findings": [ { "id": "revisions-finding", "name": "Revisions", "description": "Revisions to data.", "questions": [ { "text": "Has this figure been revised?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "text": "How large are typical revisions?", "kind": "measurement" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "models", "name": "Models", "description": "Theory and forecasts.", "rationale": "Models depend on assumptions.", "layers": [ { "id": "assumptions", "name": "Assumptions", "description": "Model premises.", "findings": [ { "id": "assumptions-finding", "name": "Assumptions", "description": "Key assumptions.", "questions": [ { "text": "What assumptions does this model make?", "kind": "definition" }, { "text": "How sensitive are results to them?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "forecasts", "name": "Forecasts", "description": "Predictions.", "findings": [ { "id": "forecasts-finding", "name": "Forecasts", "description": "Forecast and uncertainty.", "questions": [ { "text": "What is forecast, by whom, with what uncertainty?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "text": "How accurate have past forecasts been?", "kind": "measurement" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "policy", "name": "Policy", "description": "Using economics.", "rationale": "Policy advice is contested and must be balanced.", "layers": [ { "id": "options", "name": "Options", "description": "Policy choices.", "findings": [ { "id": "options-finding", "name": "Options", "description": "Options and trade-offs.", "questions": [ { "text": "What policy options exist, and what are their trade-offs?", "kind": "definition" }, { "text": "Who gains and who loses?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "advice", "name": "Advice limits", "description": "Personal finance.", "findings": [ { "id": "advice-finding", "name": "Advice limits", "description": "What not to advise.", "questions": [ { "text": "Is the user asking for personal investment advice?", "kind": "boundary" }, { "text": "How should the agent respond?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Should fields be separate entries by JEL code?", "How should agents present contested policy debates?", "How should indicator definitions be linked?" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 4, "layers": 8, "findings": 8, "questions": 16 } }