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Great start! Some things to consider for future versions: more sophisticated tax code, financial regulations, monopsonies, monopolies, collusion, corruption, oligarchies, demand elasticity, cascading effects from supply chain disruptions, central bank quantitative easing.

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A lot of this is Macroeconomics- Microeconomics (what this focused on) is effectively a different discipline. You can't really model both of them within the same framework

Source: econ major

Undergrad Econ courses still present micro and macro economics as two disciplines, but that’s theory from the 70s at best.

Graduate level economics packs a lot of economic models where for example the interest rate depends on the intertemporal preferences of different types of agents.

It just gets terribly complicated.

All of this is emergent behaviour. Agents need to be smarter and the networks need to be larger and information needs to have a cost.

One really cool thing to do is consider the agents to have limited computational capacity. There are a few NP economic problems, and you can’t expect agents to really be solving enormous computational problems in their heads.

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