Since 1992, I’ve been working to instrumentalise, with modern technology, the simulation I first implemented in that year, which showed how social reproduction can proceed without assuming market-clearing, in such a way that values, prices and use-values are stock-flow consistent – which is not the case for simultaneous or equilibrium systems. I drafted this ‘call for papers’ as a kind of exercise to involve other developers in the project, at a point in time when I was still using Java as the technology. I have since moved to Django/Python and the simulation is quite advanced; however, this document is quite useful as an interim description of the intent.
At the time of posting, the new simulation can be seen (and tested) at http://www.dascapital.org/. Also at the time of posting, I haven’t incorporated a simulation dealing with price dynamics, which until now has only been achieved in the original 1992 simulation. This may be seen as remiss, but after all, there’s a war going on…