Encode Reality Lab
Tutorials

Learn the Lab

A hands-on path from “what is a stock?” to building, wiring and analysing your own economic models. Each tutorial runs on a live model — follow the steps and the app moves with you.

Track A

Foundations

stocks, flows & feedback — on the Simulate page

  1. 01Compound growthA savings account that grows on its own intereststock & flowdx/dt = k·xgrowth vs decay5 minStart →
  2. 02Predators & preyBoom-and-bust population cyclescoupled stocksfeedback loopsoscillation7 minStart →
  3. 03The Goodwin cycleCapitalism as a predator–prey systememployment ↔ wage shareprofit squeezeclosed orbits10 minStart →
Track B

Building models

the Build canvas & Godley tables

  1. 04Build a model from scratchLimits to growth (logistic) & an epidemic (SIR)the Build canvasreading a model graphclone & edit12 minStart →
  2. 05A balance sheet in motionMoney is created by lendingdouble-entrystock-flow consistencymoney creation12 minStart →
  3. 06Extend a monetary modelAdd a government sector: spending & taxesgrowing a Godley tablekeeping rows balanceddeficits create money15 minStart →
  4. 07Anatomy of a monetary nationHow the pieces of a real economy connectsectors & balance sheetsthe bond marketsectoral balances20 minStart →
Track C

Wiring

the dataflow canvas

  1. 08Wire your first modelFrom k·x to logistic, by wiring operatorsdataflow paradigmwires → equationsfeedback via integrals12 minStart →
  2. 09Wire a monetary circuitA Godley widget with a behavioural flowGodley on the canvasaccount outputs & flow inputs15 minStart →
Track D

Agents & analysis

agent-based models and parameter sweeps

  1. 10When averages lieODE vs agent-based predator–preywhat an ABM isstochasticityextinction10 minStart →
  2. 11Systemic risk & tipping pointsBankruptcy cascades on a networkheterogeneous agentscontagionemergent collapse12 minStart →
  3. 12Mapping the regimeParameter sweeps with Atlassensitivity analysis2-D sweepsregime boundaries12 minStart →
  4. 13CapstoneModel a scenario end-to-endsynthesisbuild → simulate → sweep → interpret30 minStart →
Track E

The universal skeleton

the same dynamics in physics and economics

  1. 14The same oscillatorA spring, a circuit and a business cycle are one equationstructural isomorphismconserved energy ↔ invariantdamping ↔ friction ↔ resistance10 minStart →
  2. 15Cycles that sustain themselvesLimit cycles, business cycles, and the edge of chaoslimit cycle ↔ endogenous cycledeterministic chaosthe limits of forecasting10 minStart →