George Kleiner1946—2026

Diagrams

He drew the same arrangement of the world again and again: levels, rings, the axes of space and time. Three diagrams from his own papers.

The levels of an economy: from the state to the person

The levels of an economy: from the state to the person

The state is the macro-subject. Regions and industries are meso-subjects. Enterprises and households are micro-subjects. At the bottom are individual people, the nano-subjects. Nanoeconomics, the term he put into circulation, is the bottom line of this diagram: the economics of one person's conduct.

From: The Systemic Balance of the Economy · 2017