GROWTHCORE◉ LIVE LAB
Exponential & Solow Growth
Compounding plus capital, labor and ideas explain why some economies stall.
How it works
- Output compounds from capital, labor, and ideas.
- Capital alone hits diminishing returns — savings cannot grow forever.
- Ideas (non-rival) are the engine that escapes the drag.
Use → Growth diagnostics; ideas are the non-rival engine.
Watch out → Crediting capital deepening for what ideas actually did.
Try it → Decompose any growth story into more inputs vs better recipes.
REDCAPE jobs → Explain · Predict
Free sources → Coursera M4 (Economic Growth)
INTERACTIVE LABoriginal recreation — poke it
CAPITAL ×
7.0
WEDGE (r/g)
3.19×
Small rate gaps become large wedges — compounding does the concentrating, no villain required.
Attach to a lattice — combines with
Different families, shared jobs. Disagreement between them is where insight lives.
DISTRIBUTIONS
Entropy & Uncertainty
Entropy scores surprise: equilibrium, cyclic, random and complex outcomes sit at different levels of uncertainty.
SHARED JOBS: EXPLAIN · PREDICT
SORTING & PEER EFFECTSGranovetter Threshold
Each person has a join threshold; cascades depend on the distribution, not the average.
SHARED JOBS: EXPLAIN · PREDICT
NETWORKSPercolation / Tipping Points
Sparse links suddenly gel into a giant component — bank networks and blackouts tip fast.
SHARED JOBS: EXPLAIN · PREDICT