ABSTRACT
We describe a spatially distributed model with adaptive agents that live on a landscape and interact via a simple economy. This economy consists of a single good that is produced and consumed by the agents, plus a market mechanism that distributes this good according to the agents’ bids. Most importantly, production of the good depends on consumption of a spatially distributed resource flow described by an acyclic directed graph that connects the potential production sites. Thus, resource use at one production site implies less resource flow to other connected sites, establishing an implicit hierarchy of production sites. We investigate the influence of resource flow and distribution on the emergent behavior of the agent economy in terms of price dynamics, wealth and health distribution, and population size.
