Marginalism and Marginal Analysis : derived from the fractal.
For some time now, I have pondered on how the Koch Snowflake fractal (seen below) demonstrates, uncannily, key features in economic theory.
Is it that the economy - as we experience it - is a fractal? or, is the fractal an economy?
I am now confident - after doing the following basic math's - that fractal geometry is the foundation to the social science, Economics.
From the outset, the concept of Marginalism and fractals have something in common, they are both about the next -the next unit, or the next iteration.
Once a rule, in this case new triangles, is set in action and allowed to progress (iterate) step by step, it will go on to eventually form a snowflake. After iteration 4, the shape will set and no longer change - at least from the viewers' static perspective.
If one were to continue the iterations beyond the point of equilibrium (4.) the computer generating the pattern would soon crash: the effort (cost) would multiply while the extra benefit to the viewer - in terms of the shape – would fall close to, but never, zero.
To show that the fractal Koch Snow Flake demonstrates marginal utility theory, I substituted the Economists' utility (satisfaction or benefit gained from another iteration) with the area of the curve: reasoning that after more iterations, one gets more total satisfaction or in this case Total Area (TA). One gets (pleasingly) closer to the true shape of the snowflake.
I have used no units to measure Area, as the area in the diagram corresponds to a curve I used as a reference, http://math.rice.edu/~lanius/frac/koch3.html on the internet.
This result table will be central to my analysis of the fractal.