New Simple Economy 2.0.1
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globals [ gini-index-reserve lorenz-points Pareto-ratio ] turtles-own [ wealth ] to setup clear-all ask patches [ set pcolor white ] create-turtles num-agents [ ;; everyone starts with the same amount of after-tax money set wealth initial-wealths set shape "circle" set color 125 set size 3 ;; visualize the turtles from left to right in ascending order of wealth setxy wealth random-ycor ; all agents have same initial wealth ] update-lorenz-and-gini reset-ticks end to recolor-turtles ;; Set the class of the turtles -- if a turtle has less than a third ;; the wealth of the richest turtle, color it red. If between one ;; and two thirds, color it green. If over two thirds, color it blue. ; ask turtles [set wealth sort wealth] let max-wealth max [wealth] of turtles ask turtles [ ifelse (wealth <= max-wealth / 3) [ set color red ] ; one-third of maximum wealth [ ifelse (wealth <= (max-wealth * 2 / 3)) ; two-thirds of maximum wealth [ set color green ] [ set color blue ] ] ] end to go ;; agents with less than the transaction amount can't give it away ask turtles [if wealth >= transaction-amount [ transact-and-update ]] ;; prevent wealthy turtles from moving too far to the right ask turtles [ ifelse wealth <= max-pxcor [ set xcor wealth ] [ set xcor wealth * 2]] ; xcor can't exceed max-pxcor recolor-turtles update-lorenz-and-gini tick end to transact-and-update ;; prevent rich turtles from going too far to the right if wealth >= max-pxcor [ set xcor max-pxcor ] ;; give transaction-amount to another turtle set wealth wealth - transaction-amount ask one-of other turtles [ set wealth wealth + transaction-amount ] end to update-lorenz-and-gini ;; this procedure recomputes the value of gini-index-reserve ;; and the points in lorenz-points for the Lorenz and Gini-Index plots ;; initialize variables before computing Lorenz curve and Gini let sorted-wealths sort [wealth] of turtles let total-wealths sum sorted-wealths let wealth-sum-so-far 0 let index 0 set gini-index-reserve 0 set lorenz-points [] ;; now actually plot the Lorenz curve -- along the way, we also ;; calculate the Gini index. ;; (see the Info tab for a description of the curve and measure) repeat num-agents [ set wealth-sum-so-far (wealth-sum-so-far + item index sorted-wealths) set lorenz-points lput ((wealth-sum-so-far / total-wealths) * 100) lorenz-points set index (index + 1) ; counts the number of agents in this loop set gini-index-reserve gini-index-reserve + (index / num-agents) - (wealth-sum-so-far / total-wealth) ] end to-report top-10-pct-wealth report sum [ wealth ] of max-n-of (count turtles * 0.10) turtles [ wealth ] end to-report top-20-pct-wealth report sum [ wealth ] of max-n-of (count turtles * 0.20) turtles [ wealth ] end to-report bottom-50-pct-wealth report sum [ wealth ] of min-n-of (count turtles * 0.50) turtles [ wealth ] end to-report bottom-80-pct report sum [ wealth ] of min-n-of (count turtles * 0.80) turtles [ wealth ] end to-report total-wealth report sum [ wealth ] of turtles end to-report Pareto-80/20-test report ((sum [ wealth ] of min-n-of (count turtles * 0.80) turtles [ wealth ]) - (sum [ wealth ] of max-n-of (count turtles * 0.20) turtles [ wealth ])) end to-report wealth-by-class report (sum [ wealth ] of turtles with [ color = red ]) report (sum [ wealth ] of turtles with [ color = green ]) report (sum [ wealth ] of turtles with [ color = blue ]) end to-report top-wealth-% report ((sum [ wealth ] of turtles with [ color = blue]) / (sum [ wealth ] of turtles) * 100) end to-report mid-wealth-% report ((sum [ wealth ] of turtles with [ color = green ]) / (sum [ wealth ] of turtles) * 100) end to-report low-wealth-% report ((sum [ wealth ] of turtles with [ color = red ]) / (sum [ wealth ] of turtles) * 100) end to-report top-wealth-population report (count turtles with [ color = blue ]) end to-report mid-wealth-population report (count turtles with [ color = green ]) end to-report low-wealth-population report (count turtles with [ color = red ]) end to-report top-average-wealth report (((sum [ wealth ] of turtles with [ color = blue ]) / (count turtles))) end to-report mid-average-wealth report ((sum [ wealth ] of turtles with [ color = green ]) / (count turtles)) end to-report low-average-wealth report ((sum [ wealth ] of turtles with [ color = red ]) / (count turtles)) end to-report upper-third-wealth report sum [ wealth ] of turtles with [ color = blue] end to-report middle-third-wealth report sum [ wealth ] of turtles with [ color = green] end to-report lower-third-wealth report sum [ wealth ] of turtles with [ color = red] end
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