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The Commodity-Money Analytical Framework: A Unified Approach to Micro-Macro-Economics and Complex Economics

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The commodity function X and the money function Y are introduced to construct a unified micro-macro-economic analytical framework.

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This chapter is a revision of the original version published at Euro-Asian Journal of Economics and Finance, 2015, 3(1): 44–52.

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Ye, F.Y. (2017). The Commodity-Money Analytical Framework: A Unified Approach to Micro-Macro-Economics and Complex Economics. In: Scientific Metrics: Towards Analytical and Quantitative Sciences. Understanding Complex Systems. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-5936-0_8

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