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Area of Science:

  • Economics
  • Sociology
  • Operations Research

Background:

  • Modern societies exhibit a significant shift from localized to centralized production systems.
  • This transition enables economies of scale and facilitates mass production, often relying on extensive transportation networks.
  • Understanding the agent-level decisions driving this phenomenon is crucial for economic and social analysis.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To present a simplified model illustrating the transition from local to centralized production.
  • To analyze how agents allocate limited resources (time and raw materials) between self-consumption and market-based production.
  • To explore the emergence of diverse production regimes and agent optimization strategies.

Main Methods:

  • Development of a simple agent-based model.
  • Simulation of resource allocation decisions (time, raw materials) under different production scenarios.
  • Analysis of agent utility optimization across self-production, market work, and leisure.

Main Results:

  • The model demonstrates a complex landscape of production regimes, including specialized and mixed strategies.
  • Agents can optimize utility by strategically combining market work, self-subsistence production, and leisure time.
  • The findings highlight the interplay between resource constraints and production choices in shaping economic behavior.

Conclusions:

  • The shift to centralized production is a multifaceted phenomenon driven by agent-level optimization.
  • Agent decision-making involves a dynamic balance of resource allocation for various production and consumption activities.
  • The model provides insights into the behavioral economics underlying large-scale production and societal organization.