What is the ‘economic position’?

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I'm a little confused about this terminology...

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Everything in the economy has

Everything in the economy has an economic position relative to everything else. This is the same as saying that everything in the economy is connected to everything else in one way or another. The economy can be viewed as a tremendous network of people, products, companies and industries exchanging capital, products and ideas; the wikibase allows you to see this and leverage it in your exploration. Besides being connected, another major property of how we see the world entails summarizing or seeing the same concern on different scales. The wikibase allows users to aggregate data and articulate instrumental and captial relations between different industries.

For example, a hurricane in the Gulf of Mexico can cause an increase in the price of Lazy Boy chairs. Why? Because the foam used to make a Lazy Boy chair is made from Petroleum products, lazy boy chairs are said to be connected to gulf oil platforms. This conceptual architecture becomes a visible architecture of spaces you can navigate; relations you can unfold.