the first model i think ought to get a good going over is the epical dornbush fischer samuelson model
of ricardian trade with and without a medium of exchange
it has a load of assumptions that need a nice dissection
the prospective gem should largely involve the analytic destruction of alternative models
as much or more then the construction of the synthesis of itself
as an open source type model; of a closed market based production and trading system
designed to simulate in a stylized fashion
a historically "determined social world"
at all cost
job one :
we need to dynamite the "opposition"'s fortifications