New Economic Policies (NEP) Mod
Adds 3 new laws and accompanying production methods: Cybernetic Management, Anarcho-Liberalism, and Enclosures.
Update to the old NEPMod.
With the new changes, I’ve decided that the best way to represent the Cybernetic Management economic system is by adding a new production method to Financial Centers and Manor Houses. Now, under the new Cybernetic Management law, the Agricultural Nerve Center production method for Manor Houses and the Financial Nerve Center production method for Financial Centers has been created. These represent the creation of Cybersyn-like offices in each state, which gather together real-time information about factory output and inputs, and coordinate production through the use of telegraph wires, telephones, and legions of hard-working men and women armed with adding machines. The bonus in Market Access Price Impact represents the smoothing of national-level prices due to the rapid exchange in information. What makes it different from cooperative ownership and command economy is that it combines aspects of both – a kind of "decentralized planned economy".
What this translates to is that every Financial Center/Manor House that engages this production method will stimulate a state-level increase in throughput, which scales according to the number of employees working at the Financial Center. The Nerve Center production methods require Telephones and Electricity. This can cause a virtuous cycle, whereby profitable Financial Centers stimulate higher production throughput, which stimulates profit and causes the Financial Centers to expand. 19th Century Fully Automated Luxury Communism! But be warned! To reach its full potential, you need a sufficient and healthy supply of electricity and telephones, or else your nascent cybernetic economy will choke.
NEPMod also comes with two other new laws and their accompanying production methods: Anarcho-Liberalism and Enclosures.
Anarcho-Liberalism is a more radical form of Laissez-Faire economy which is opposed to the very idea of government at all. Keep regulation out of business, for there is no God or State and we are governed by none but the invisible hand of the market itself. Anarcho-Liberalism distinguishes itself from Laissez-Faire not simply by being "Laissez-Faire, but more!" but also by adding two new types of production method to Financial Centers: Financial Derivatives and Futures Trading. To make up for the hit to taxation capacity, and to represent the new economy built on a cloud of speculation and grift, the new production method takes paper and later electricity as inputs and enables capitalists working there to generate endless streams of gold from pure hubris!
Anarcho-Liberalism is enabled by the International Exchange Standards.
Finally, Enclosures is an early Land Reform law that you can pass, which moderately increases the power of Landowners and Authority, in exchange for being able to enable a new production method on all your Subsistence Farms. Too many peasants working on empty arable land across your country? The serfs long for the mines! Why not kick them out and get a head start (and likely trigger a famine) by enclosing vast swathes of land?
Summary:
– New Economic System: Cybernetic Management
— New Production Methods: Financial Nerve Center, Agricultural Nerve Center, Technician Oversight
– New Economic System: Anarcho Liberalism
— New Production Methods for Financial Districts: No Stock Trading, Financial Derivatives, Futures Exchange Desk
– New Land Reform: Enclosures
— New Production Methods: Enclosures.
– New Interest Group Ideology: Technocratic – Will *strongly approve* of Technocracy and Cybernetic Management
– Existing ideologies have stances against/for Cybernetic Management, Anarcho-Liberalism, Enclosures
