Vic3 1.14市场机制和MAPI分析 On Markets and MAPI

截止1.14,VIC3的商品经济运作模型,可以抽象理解为三重市场框架。国际市场、国家市场、本地市场,实际上还隐藏了一个state市场(state price)。P社假装这三个市场形成的均衡的价格是大一统的,但首先,这种均衡是不完全的,因为它不是以商品供需关系为起点来生成的动态量价,而是以固定价格为起点生成的增量式虚拟价格。由于价格是虚拟的,那么量也是虚拟的,这就是所谓火星市场的由来。也就是说,三个市场不存在真正意义上的量价清算,而是一种拟合。而在这种拟合中,清算过程中产生的价差并没有被表达,在实际宏观生产中这个价差产生的利润被归纳为贸易业、流通业或物流业。在拟合的过程中,国家市场与国际市场的价差被部分以贸易中心和港口、商船的方式表达了,但还存在部分未被表达的残余。而本地市场与国家市场的清算,则完全未表达这种价差产生的价值转移与分配。P社抽象地用MAPI表达了这种跨市场互动的表达函数,却未表达这种互动产生的结果,也就是说,我们知道了国家市场的量价情况,也知道了本地市场的量价情况,但在跨市场发生互动的时候,我们只知道互动到了什么程度,却没看到互动的结果;产生的利润被火星市场吞没了。

我考虑做一个MOD来表达这个清算结果,但我MOD的目的不是将其经济结果复现并注入到宏观经济运动中,而是复现这种已经在发挥作用的经济角色所带来的经济提升的经济成本。

As of 1.14, the operational model of Victoria 3’s commodity economy can be abstractly understood as a three-tier market framework: the World Market, the National Market, and the Local Market, with a fourth “state market” (state price) actually hidden underneath. Paradox pretends that the equilibrium price formed across these three markets is unified. However, first of all, this equilibrium is incomplete, because it does not generate dynamic prices and quantities starting from actual supply-and-demand relationships, but rather generates incremental virtual prices starting from a fixed base price. Because the price is virtual, the quantity is virtual as well—which is the exact origin of the so-called “aether market” (goods spawning from and vanishing into the void). In other words, there is no true price-quantity market clearing across these three markets, only a mathematical fitting. Within this fitting, the price spread generated during the clearing process is never represented; in real-world macroeconomic production, the profit derived from this price spread is captured by the trade, distribution, or logistics sectors. During the fitting process, the price spread between the National Market and the World Market is partially represented through Trade Centers, Ports, and Merchant Marine, though an unrepresented residual still remains. Meanwhile, the clearing between the Local Market and the National Market completely fails to represent the value transfer and distribution generated by this price spread. Paradox abstractly uses MAPI as the function to express this cross-market interaction, yet fails to represent the outcome produced by that interaction. That is to say, we know the price and quantity conditions of the National Market, and we know the price and quantity conditions of the Local Market, but when cross-market interaction occurs, we only know to what extent they interact without ever seeing the result of that interaction—the resulting profit is simply swallowed by the aether.

I am considering making a mod to represent this clearing outcome, but the purpose of my mod is not to reproduce its economic return and inject it into the macroeconomic movement; rather, it is to reproduce the economic cost of the economic uplift brought about by this economic role that is already functioning in the background.

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