So, in this study deep structural and dynamic analogies between physical multi-atom systems and multi-agent economic systems are used in order to transfer conceptual, analytical and numerical methods from theoretical physics to theoretical economics. This transfer is performed by means of physical modeling of economic systems or, in short, physical-economic modeling. Our concept of physical-economic modeling is based on the well-known fundamental ideas of classical economic theory, first of all of Austrian economics. They are then combined and eventually, with the help of additional concepts and mathematical body adopted from physics, transformed into a new economic theory. This combination is organized through formal approaches and methods borrowed from theoretical physics, starting from the introduction into economic theory of the formal economic space concepts, motion trajectories of market agents and the market as a whole in such space, and finishing with the substantiation of the principal possibility of using the method of equations of motion in economic theory. To avoid misunderstandings, we emphasize again that the role of theoretical physics here is only to provide the mechanisms for developing a probabilistic economics. Relying on this theory, step by step, taking into account all principles of the theory simultaneously, we create more complex physico-economic models, taking into account the experience with previous models, which will be repeatedly illustrated in figures and graphs.
Of course, all physical-economic models are essentially conceptual mathematical models, just as in physics. The notion of "physical modeling" is used to emphasize an analogy with the rules or principles of modeling in physics. Further, this term will become redundant and will not be used. In the course of developing conceptual models of economic systems we will consistently introduce the concepts and principles of our theory, which will serve as a basis for the models’ frameworks, which, in turn, will be filled with new content step by step. We will start with constructing the simplest models with the help of analogies and formal methods of classical mechanics. For the sake of brevity, we will call such models classical models below. Naturally, only the first five principles will be used in the development of such a classical theory, or simply classics, since only they have analogues in classical mechanics.
So, Fig. 1.1 shows a typical graphic economic model of a market system, or simply, a market. This model, configured by analogy with models for physical multiparticle systems, uses a number of legends or conventions to demonstrate typical market structure.
Fig. 1.1. Graphical model of a single-commodity multiagent market economy in the economic two-dimensional price-quantity space. The dots inside the conventional sphere represent market agents: buyers (green dots) and sellers (red dots), forming demand and supply, respectively. The sphere is divided into two parts by the narrow blue line, which symbolically marks the narrow area of prices, where the transactions in the market are made at the current experimental price p>Exp. Buyers are in the left hemisphere and sellers are in the right hemisphere, since the buyers’ prices are lower than the sellers’ prices with very rare exceptions.
The main structural element of the model is the market itself, consisting of a certain number of interacting market agents: buyers and sellers. This market is not a closed system – it is an open system, because it is under the constant influence of its institutional and external environment, as well as other markets and other sources of influence. All these factors also serve as structural elements of the market, because they exert a strong influence on market agents, and without taking it into account it is impossible to obtain a reliable description of the mechanisms of market operation and its results.