"Economic Information System" for preventing Instability and Disequilibrium

这项研究的目的是考虑建立一个“经济信息系统”的可能性，该系统从个别经济主体收集经济信息并将其传播给一般公众，以防止由于缺乏适当的经济信息而发生经济不稳定或不平衡。我们考虑了这种经济信息系统的大纲，并描述了它的功能，即利用联机电子系统收集交易数据，并对其进行处理，以产生有用的统计信息。我们还考虑了在建设经济信息系统中可能出现的问题和克服这些问题所需的公共政策。特别是，由于传播有偏见的信息（如程序化交易造成的波动）而引起可忽视的经济波动的可能性。一个问题是如何协调对隐私的需要（即，隐藏个人经济代理人的私人信息的需要）和为整个经济的利益使用这些信息的需要。

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.