"Economic Information System" for preventing Instability and Disequilibrium

为了防止因缺乏适当的经济信息而发生经济不稳定或不平衡，本研究的目的是探讨建立一个从个体经济行为者那里收集经济信息并向一般公众传播的“经济信息系统“的可能性。我们对这种经济信息系统进行了概述，并描述了它的功能。即利用网上电子系统收集交易资料，并加以处理，以产生有用的统计资料。我们还考虑了在建设经济信息系统中可能出现的问题以及克服这些问题所需的公共政策。特别是，通过传播有偏见的信息（如程序化交易引起的波动），可能会引起不必要的经济波动。一个问题是如何调和对隐私的需要（即，需要隐藏个人经济行为主体的私人信息），以及需要利用这些信息为整个经济造福。

The objective of this study was to consider the possibility of creating an "economic information system, " which collects economic information from individual economic agents and disseminates it to the general public in order to prevent economic instability or disequilibrium from taking place because of the lack of appropriate economic information.We considered an outline of such economic information system, and described its functions, which is to collect transactions data by using on-line electronic systems and to process them for generating useful statistical information. We also considered problems which likely arise in constructing economic information system and public policies needed to overcome them. In particular, the possibility of introducing undersirable economic fluctuations by disseminating biased information (such as fluctuations caused by programd trades). One issue was how to reconcile the need for privacy (i.e., the need to hide information private to individual economic agents) and the need to use such information for the benefit of the entire economy.