| Chapter 1 | Introduction: What is operational economics? |
| Chapter 2 | Methodology for operational economics: The verifiable calculus of system dynamics |
| Chapter 3 | Bounded rational managerial role-play and the generic systems it creates |
| Chapter 4 | Macroeconomic patterns and contemporary models |
| Chapter 5 | Classical economics through system dynamics lens |
| Chapter 6 | An operational theory of firm- Managerial silos within the firm
- Marketing / advertising
- Production and Operations Management
- Capital investment
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| Chapter 7 | Production as supply chain (industrial dynamics) |
| Chapter 8 | Managing supply chain instability with dynamic control |
| Chapter 9 | What about Demand?- Delivery delay, quality, commitments, tastes, preferences. Really??
- Coupled adjustment processes in short term changes in demand
- Household income, functional income distribution, Say’s Law.
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| Chapter 10 | Price: an outcome or a driver? |
| Chapter 11 | Macro behavior from microstructure |
| Chapter 12 | Reformulating the macro-economic model through system dynamics lens |
| Chapter 13 | Managing economic cycles with feedback control |
| Chapter 14 | Money, taxation, and public finance- Fiat money is not a commodity
- Managing money supply with feedback control
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| Chapter 15 | Duality, income distribution, and poverty alleviation |
| Chapter 16 | Foreign trade in the face of footloose capital and restricted labor mobility |
| Chapter 17 | Economic development as creative destruction |
| Chapter 18 | Environmental/ecological considerations- The demand for environmental resources
- The supply system and the tipping point
- Control of the resource basket
- Subsuming environmental restoration into the market
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| Chapter 19 | Path forward- Economy as a supply chain
- Workforce dynamics
- Investment dynamics
- Self-ordering dynamics
- Long term changes in functional income distribution
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| Chapter 20 | System thinking metaphors |
| Chapter 21 | Model validity |
