feat(infospace): add L3 relation graph with VSM-aware triplets (S2.8)
Implements the L3 relation graph layer — a directed graph of (Subject,
Predicate, Object) triplets annotated with VSM channel codes and feedback
roles. Triplets are authored as markdown files under output/relations/,
parsed into RelationMeta dataclasses, and analysed with networkx.
New modules:
- markitect/infospace/relation_models.py — RelationMeta dataclass +
RELATION_TYPES controlled vocabulary (15 relation classes → VSM codes)
- markitect/infospace/relation_parser.py — parse_relation_file() and
parse_relations_directory()
New schema: examples/infospace-with-history/schemas/relation-schema-v1.0.md
— file naming convention, required sections, controlled vocabulary table
15 seed relation files covering the three core WoN feedback loops:
- Capital Accumulation loop (positive reinforcement, S1/S3)
- Market Price Balancing loop (negative feedback, S2/S3)
- Market Extent mutual dependency (S1/S2)
Plus structural relations: wages regulation, rent residual, price
decomposition, invisible hand coordination
CLI: markitect infospace relations [--entity SLUG] [--vsm FILTER]
[--loops] [--stats]
- Builds directed graph from parsed files
- Detects feedback loops via nx.simple_cycles()
- 6 loops found from 15 seed relations (3 intended + 3 emergent)
- --stats aggregates by VSM system code (strips parentheticals)
Config: InfospaceConfig gains relations_dir (default output/relations)
infospace.yaml: schemas.relation references relation-schema-v1.0.md
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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entity: schemas/economic-entity-schema-v1.0.md
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mapping: schemas/vsm-mapping-schema-v1.0.md
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analysis: schemas/chapter-analysis-schema-v1.0.md
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relation: schemas/relation-schema-v1.0.md
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competency_questions: |
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1. How does Smith's division of labour map to VSM System 1 operations?
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# Accumulation of Stock — enables — Division of Labour
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## Subject
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Accumulation of Stock
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## Predicate
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enables
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## Object
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Division of Labour
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## Relation Type
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enables
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## VSM Channel
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S3 → S1 (capital stock managed at S3 deploys productive capacity at S1)
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## Evidence
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Book I, Chapter 6: "As soon as stock has accumulated in the hands of
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particular persons, some of them will naturally employ it in setting to work
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industrious people, whom they will supply with materials and subsistence."
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## Feedback Role
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**Capital Accumulation loop (positive/reinforcing):**
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Accumulation of Stock → enables → Division of Labour → increases →
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Productive Powers of Labour → raises → Profits of Stock → funds →
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Accumulation of Stock.
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This edge (enables) is the initiating link: accumulated capital is the
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prerequisite for organising specialised production. Without prior accumulation
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there is no employer to assign and coordinate different tasks.
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# Accumulation of Stock — increases supply that depresses — Market Price of Commodities
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## Subject
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Accumulation of Stock
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## Predicate
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increases supply, depressing
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## Object
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Market Price of Commodities
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## Relation Type
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regulates
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## VSM Channel
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S3 → S2 (capital deployment increases supply, correcting price signal)
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## Evidence
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Book I, Chapter 7: "When the quantity brought to market exceeds the
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effectual demand, it cannot be all sold to those who are willing to pay
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the whole value of the rent, wages and profit, which must be paid in
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order to bring it thither. Some part must be sold to those who are
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willing to pay less, and the low price which they give for it must
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reduce the price of the whole."
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## Feedback Role
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**Market Price Balancing loop (negative/balancing):**
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Market Price above Natural Price → attracts → Capital inflow →
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increases supply → depresses → Market Price back toward Natural Price.
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This edge (increases supply, depressing) closes the balancing loop:
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directed capital raises output until oversupply brings price back down.
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This is the mechanism behind Smith's claim that natural price acts as
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the "central price, to which the prices of all commodities are
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continually gravitating."
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# Division of Labour — constrains — Market Extent
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## Subject
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Division of Labour
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## Predicate
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limited by
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## Object
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Market Extent
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## Relation Type
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constrains
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## VSM Channel
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S2 ← S1 (the coordination reach of markets bounds the scope of operational specialisation)
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## Evidence
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Book I, Chapter 3: "As it is the power of exchanging that gives occasion
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to the division of labour, so the extent of this division must always be
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limited by the extent of that power, or, in other words, by the extent
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of the market."
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## Feedback Role
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**Market Expansion loop (positive/reinforcing):**
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Market Extent → enables greater Division of Labour → raises Productive
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Powers of Labour → generates surplus → expands Trade → expands
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Market Extent.
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This edge (limited by) is the structural constraint that gives the loop
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its character: the level of specialisation that can be sustained depends
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on the size of the market that can absorb the specialised output.
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Smith's famous opening of Chapter III states this with unusual directness.
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# Division of Labour — increases — Productive Powers of Labour
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## Subject
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Division of Labour
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## Predicate
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increases
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## Object
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Productive Powers of Labour
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## Relation Type
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enables
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## VSM Channel
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S1 → S1 (operational specialisation raises operational output per unit)
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## Evidence
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Book I, Chapter 1: "The greatest improvement in the productive powers of
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labour, and the greater part of the skill, dexterity, and judgment with
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which it is anywhere directed, or applied, seem to have been the effects
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of the division of labour."
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## Feedback Role
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**Capital Accumulation loop (positive/reinforcing):**
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Accumulation of Stock → enables → Division of Labour → increases →
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Productive Powers of Labour → raises → Profits of Stock → funds →
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Accumulation of Stock.
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This edge (increases) is the productivity mechanism: specialisation
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improves dexterity, saves time between tasks, and facilitates the
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invention of machinery — three distinct channels that all raise output
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per worker.
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# Invisible Hand Mechanism — coordinates — Accumulation of Stock
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## Subject
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Invisible Hand Mechanism
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## Predicate
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coordinates (directs capital allocation without central direction)
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## Object
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Accumulation of Stock
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## Relation Type
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coordinates
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## VSM Channel
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S4 → S3 (distributed environmental intelligence shapes capital allocation decisions)
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## Evidence
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Book IV, Chapter 2: "He generally, indeed, neither intends to promote the
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public interest, nor knows how much he is promoting it... he intends only
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his own security; and by directing that industry in a manner whose produce
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may be of the greatest value, he intends only his own gain, and he is in
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this, as in many other cases, led by an invisible hand to promote an end
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which was no part of his intention."
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## Feedback Role
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The Invisible Hand Mechanism is the S4 intelligence function that makes
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the Market Price Balancing loop self-organising. Individual capitalists
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seeking private profit collectively direct accumulation to where returns
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are highest, which (through the market price balancing loop) also serves
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as a resource allocation mechanism. This relation explains why the system
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does not require a planner — the S4 function is distributed across all
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capital owners simultaneously.
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# Market Extent — enables — Division of Labour
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## Subject
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Market Extent
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## Predicate
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enables (by providing demand for specialised output)
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## Object
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Division of Labour
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## Relation Type
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enables
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## VSM Channel
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S2 → S1 (coordination reach of markets enables operational specialisation)
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## Evidence
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Book I, Chapter 3: "When the market is very small, no person can have
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any encouragement to dedicate himself entirely to one employment, for
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want of the power to exchange all that surplus part of the produce of his
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own labour, which is over and above his own consumption, for such parts
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of the produce of other men's labour as he has occasion for."
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## Feedback Role
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**Market Expansion loop (positive/reinforcing):**
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Market Extent → enables → Division of Labour → raises Productive Powers
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of Labour → generates surplus → expands Trade → expands Market Extent.
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Together with the constrains edge (Division of Labour ← Market Extent),
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this pair forms the mutual dependency at the heart of Book I: markets
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enable specialisation, and specialisation generates the surplus that
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expands markets.
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# Market Price of Commodities — attracts — Accumulation of Stock
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## Subject
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Market Price of Commodities
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## Predicate
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attracts (when above natural price)
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## Object
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Accumulation of Stock
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## Relation Type
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coordinates
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## VSM Channel
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S2 → S3 (price signal coordinates capital reallocation)
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## Evidence
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Book I, Chapter 7: "When the quantity brought to market falls short of the
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effectual demand, all those who are willing to pay the whole natural price
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cannot be supplied. Some of them will be willing to give more. A competition
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will immediately begin among them, and the market price will rise more or
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less above the natural price."
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## Feedback Role
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**Market Price Balancing loop (negative/balancing):**
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Market Price above Natural Price → attracts → Capital inflow (Accumulation
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directed to this market) → increases Supply → depresses → Market Price
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back toward Natural Price.
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This edge (attracts) is the signal-response link: a market price above
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natural price is a profit opportunity that draws capital from other uses.
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Smith's key insight is that this signal is self-cancelling — it eliminates
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the very excess that created it.
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# Market Price of Commodities — decomposes into — Profits of Stock
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## Subject
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Market Price of Commodities
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## Predicate
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decomposes into (profit as component)
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## Object
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Profits of Stock
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## Relation Type
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produces
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## VSM Channel
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S2 → S3 (price signal resolves into return on capital, which S3 manages)
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## Evidence
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Book I, Chapter 6: "In every society the price of every commodity
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finally resolves itself into some one or other, or all of those three
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parts; and in every improved society, all three enter more or less,
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as component parts, into the price of the far greater part of commodities."
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## Feedback Role
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Part of the **Three-Component Decomposition** (see also wages and rent
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relations). This edge links the market price coordination signal (S2)
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to the capital management outcome (S3), establishing profit as the
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mechanism by which market performance translates into the fund for
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future accumulation. It is the bridge between the Market Price Balancing
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loop and the Capital Accumulation loop.
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# Market Price of Commodities — decomposes into — Wages of Labour
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## Subject
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Market Price of Commodities
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## Predicate
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decomposes into (wages as component)
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## Object
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Wages of Labour
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## Relation Type
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produces
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## VSM Channel
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S2 → S2 (price as coordination signal resolves into its component coordination signals)
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## Evidence
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Book I, Chapter 6: "In every society the price of every commodity
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finally resolves itself into some one or other, or all of those three
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parts [wages, profit, rent]; and in every improved society, all three
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enter more or less, as component parts, into the price of the far greater
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part of commodities."
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## Feedback Role
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This is one of the three price-decomposition relations (alongside market
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price → profits of stock, and market price → rent of land). Together
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they form the **Three-Component Decomposition**: the price system
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connects the coordination layer (S2) back to the distributional outcomes
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for all three factor markets. The decomposition is the analytical
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foundation from which Books I and II derive their structure.
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# Natural Price as Central Price — centres — Market Price of Commodities
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## Subject
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Natural Price as Central Price
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## Predicate
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centres
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## Object
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Market Price of Commodities
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## Relation Type
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coordinates
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## VSM Channel
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S2 (natural price is the attractor in the S2 coordination field)
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## Evidence
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Book I, Chapter 7: "The natural price, therefore, is, as it were, the
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central price, to which the prices of all commodities are continually
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gravitating. Different accidents may sometimes keep them suspended a good
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deal above it, and sometimes force them down even somewhat below it."
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## Feedback Role
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This relation is the attractor definition for the Market Price Balancing
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loop — natural price is the equilibrium that both loops (attraction of
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capital when above, flight of capital when below) converge on. It is the
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S2 coordination reference point around which oscillation is suppressed.
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# Productive Powers of Labour — raises — Profits of Stock
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## Subject
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Productive Powers of Labour
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## Predicate
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raises
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## Object
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Profits of Stock
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## Relation Type
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produces
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## VSM Channel
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S1 → S3 (operational productivity surplus allocated as profit at capital management level)
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## Evidence
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Book I, Chapter 6: "The value which the workmen add to the materials
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resolves itself into two parts, of which the one pays their wages, the
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other the profits of their employer upon the whole stock of materials
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and wages which he advanced."
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## Feedback Role
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**Capital Accumulation loop (positive/reinforcing):**
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Accumulation of Stock → enables → Division of Labour → increases →
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Productive Powers of Labour → raises → Profits of Stock → funds →
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Accumulation of Stock.
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This edge (raises) is the surplus-extraction link: the productivity gain
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produced by specialisation shows up as profit over and above wage costs,
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generating the fund from which further accumulation occurs.
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# Profits of Stock — funds — Accumulation of Stock
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## Subject
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## Predicate
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## Object
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Accumulation of Stock
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## Relation Type
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## VSM Channel
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S3 → S3 (profit retained by capital managers re-enters the stock managed at S3)
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## Evidence
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his capital, and either employs it himself in maintaining an additional
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number of productive hands, or enables some other person to do so, by
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lending it to him for an interest."
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## Feedback Role
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**Capital Accumulation loop (positive/reinforcing):**
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Accumulation of Stock.
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This edge (funds) closes the loop: profit not consumed becomes saving,
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and saving becomes the new stock that enables the next round of division
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of labour. This is why Smith regards frugality as a public virtue — it
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fuels productive capacity rather than dissipating it.
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# Rent of Land — regulated by — Market Price of Commodities
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## Subject
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## Predicate
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## Object
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## Relation Type
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## VSM Channel
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S2 → S3 (price signal determines what residual rent the land can command)
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## Evidence
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Book I, Chapter 11: "Rent, it is to be observed, therefore, enters into
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the composition of the price of commodities in a different manner from
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wages and profit. High or low wages and profit are the causes of high or
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low price; high or low rent is the effect of it."
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## Feedback Role
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This relation establishes rent as a **residual** in the price decomposition
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rather than a cost that determines price. It places Rent of Land in a
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structurally subordinate position to the Market Price mechanism — rent
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takes what is left after labour and capital have been paid, rather than
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## Predicate
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## Object
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## Relation Type
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## VSM Channel
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S3 → S2 (capital stock sets demand for labour, which sets the wage coordination signal)
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## Evidence
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Book I, Chapter 8: "The demand for those who live by wages, therefore,
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necessarily increases with the increase of the revenue and stock of every
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country, and cannot possibly increase without it. The increase of revenue
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and stock is the increase of national wealth."
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## Feedback Role
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|
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**Wages Expansion loop (positive/reinforcing):**
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Accumulation of Stock → raises demand for labour → raises Wages of Labour
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→ raises consumer capacity → stimulates Productive Powers of Labour →
|
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generates surplus → funds Accumulation of Stock.
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|
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This edge (regulated by) establishes the first link: the wage rate
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responds to the growth of capital stock, not to the current stock level
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directly. Rapid accumulation raises wages; stationary stock does not.
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# Wages of Labour — regulated by — Profits of Stock
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|
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## Subject
|
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|
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Wages of Labour
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|
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## Predicate
|
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|
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regulated by (bounded above by)
|
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|
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## Object
|
||||
|
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Profits of Stock
|
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|
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## Relation Type
|
||||
|
||||
is regulated by
|
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|
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## VSM Channel
|
||||
|
||||
S3 → S2 (capital management sets the upper bound on the coordination signal)
|
||||
|
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## Evidence
|
||||
|
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Book I, Chapter 8: "In order to bring up a family, the labour of the
|
||||
husband and wife together must, even in the lowest species of common
|
||||
labour, be able to earn something more than what is precisely necessary
|
||||
for their own maintenance; but in what is commonly called common labour
|
||||
it is rare that a single labourer earns much more... The interests of
|
||||
the two parties are by no means the same. The workmen desire to get as
|
||||
much, the masters to give as little as possible."
|
||||
|
||||
## Feedback Role
|
||||
|
||||
This relation establishes the distributional constraint that bounds
|
||||
the Wages loop. Profits of Stock and Wages of Labour are in permanent
|
||||
tension: every increase in one (holding productivity constant) reduces
|
||||
the other. This is Smith's clearest statement of class interest as a
|
||||
structural feature of market economies.
|
||||
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examples/infospace-with-history/schemas/relation-schema-v1.0.md
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139
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|
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# Relation Triplet Schema — v1.0
|
||||
|
||||
Each file in `output/relations/` captures a single directed relation between
|
||||
two entities from the L1 entity collection. Relations are the edges of the
|
||||
L3 relation graph.
|
||||
|
||||
---
|
||||
|
||||
## Required Sections
|
||||
|
||||
### H1 — Relation title
|
||||
|
||||
Format: `# Subject — predicate phrase — Object`
|
||||
|
||||
Example: `# Division of Labour — limited by — Market Extent`
|
||||
|
||||
---
|
||||
|
||||
### Subject
|
||||
|
||||
The entity that is the **source** of the relation — the thing doing the
|
||||
enabling, constraining, producing, etc.
|
||||
|
||||
Use the entity's exact title as it appears in its L1 entity file (H1 heading).
|
||||
|
||||
---
|
||||
|
||||
### Predicate
|
||||
|
||||
A short phrase from the **controlled relation vocabulary** (see below), or
|
||||
a natural language variant that maps to one of those classes.
|
||||
|
||||
Examples: `limited by`, `enables`, `is regulated by`, `produces`
|
||||
|
||||
---
|
||||
|
||||
### Object
|
||||
|
||||
The entity that is the **target** of the relation — the thing being enabled,
|
||||
constrained, regulated, etc.
|
||||
|
||||
Use the entity's exact title as it appears in its L1 entity file.
|
||||
|
||||
---
|
||||
|
||||
### Relation Type
|
||||
|
||||
The **semantic class** of the predicate, drawn from the controlled vocabulary:
|
||||
|
||||
| Relation Type | Meaning | Default VSM Channel |
|
||||
|---|---|---|
|
||||
| `enables` | Subject makes object possible or more effective | S1 → S1 |
|
||||
| `constrains` | Subject limits or bounds the object | S1 ← S1 |
|
||||
| `regulates` | Subject actively governs the object | S3 → S1 |
|
||||
| `is regulated by` | Object governs the subject | S1 ← S3 |
|
||||
| `coordinates` | Subject reduces oscillation or misalignment | S2 |
|
||||
| `produces` | Subject generates the object as output | S1 |
|
||||
| `consumes` | Subject depletes the object | S1 |
|
||||
| `monitors` | Subject observes and reports on object | S3* |
|
||||
| `audits` | Subject verifies compliance of object | S3* |
|
||||
| `adapts to` | Subject adjusts in response to object | S4 |
|
||||
| `anticipates` | Subject predicts or models the object | S4 |
|
||||
| `defines` | Subject sets the identity or rules of object | S5 → any |
|
||||
| `is defined by` | Object sets the identity or rules of subject | any ← S5 |
|
||||
| `contradicts` | Subject is in direct logical conflict with object | any |
|
||||
| `tensions with` | Subject and object exist in productive tension | any |
|
||||
|
||||
---
|
||||
|
||||
### VSM Channel
|
||||
|
||||
The Viable System Model systems involved in this relation, with direction.
|
||||
|
||||
Format: `S<n> → S<m>` or `S<n>` if the relation is within a single system.
|
||||
|
||||
Examples:
|
||||
- `S1 → S2` — operation drives a coordination signal
|
||||
- `S3 → S1` — management regulates operations
|
||||
- `S2` — pure coordination within S2
|
||||
- `S4 → S5` — intelligence informing policy
|
||||
|
||||
Use `S3*` for audit loops (Beer's algedonic channel).
|
||||
|
||||
---
|
||||
|
||||
### Evidence
|
||||
|
||||
Direct textual evidence from Adam Smith's text. Preferred format:
|
||||
|
||||
```
|
||||
Book I, Chapter 3: "The division of labour is limited by the extent of the market."
|
||||
```
|
||||
|
||||
Use short quotes when available. Chapter reference alone is acceptable when
|
||||
no single sentence captures the relation.
|
||||
|
||||
---
|
||||
|
||||
### Feedback Role (optional)
|
||||
|
||||
If this relation is part of a named feedback loop, describe its role here.
|
||||
Name the loop and state what the relation contributes.
|
||||
|
||||
Example:
|
||||
```
|
||||
Part of the Market Expansion loop: larger market → more specialisation
|
||||
→ higher productivity → greater surplus → expanded trade → larger market.
|
||||
This edge (limited by) is the constraining link that turns the loop balancing
|
||||
when market extent cannot grow further.
|
||||
```
|
||||
|
||||
Omit or leave empty if the relation is not part of a known feedback loop.
|
||||
|
||||
---
|
||||
|
||||
## File Naming
|
||||
|
||||
Use the pattern: `<subject-slug>--<relation-type>--<object-slug>.md`
|
||||
|
||||
Where slugs are derived from entity titles using the same slugification as
|
||||
entity files (lowercase, spaces and punctuation replaced with underscores).
|
||||
|
||||
Example: `division_of_labour--constrains--market_extent.md`
|
||||
|
||||
If two entities have the same relation type between them (unusual), append
|
||||
a numeric suffix: `...-2.md`.
|
||||
|
||||
---
|
||||
|
||||
## Completeness Criteria
|
||||
|
||||
A relation file is **complete** if:
|
||||
- All four required sections are present and non-empty
|
||||
- The Relation Type is from the controlled vocabulary
|
||||
- The VSM Channel is a valid VSM system designation
|
||||
- Evidence references a specific Book and Chapter
|
||||
|
||||
A relation file is **acceptable** if:
|
||||
- Required sections present but Evidence is missing (mark as `(unverified)`)
|
||||
Reference in New Issue
Block a user