Not really, no. The example I used (based on this: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/surface-tension-science-build-a-raft-powered-by-soap/ https://www

Not really, no. The example I used (based on this: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/surface-tension-science-build-a-raft-powered-by-soap/ https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/surface-tension-s...) is precisely to show that if you play with scale too much, you might introduce (or remove) phenomena that make the whole model totally inapplicable. - a 1-inch cruise ship (model) can definitely be moved by 1 drop of dish soap. - 12000 drops of liquid dish will have no effect whatsoever on a full-sized cruise ship. Let's go back to our "State economy is just like a household economy". If you google for "major expenses of local government" you will get something like: "public school system, law enforcement, fire protection, public facilities , and public health." do you really believe that the household budget for "fire protection" or "law enforcement" is comparable (as a percentage of total expenses) to what a state spends? (According to the California State Controller's Office, in the 2021-22 fiscal year cities spent $14.82 billion on police expenditures, making up the highest category of spending at 14.8% of total expenditures in the state) Does the average household spend 15% of its annual budget on enforcing corrective measures to be applied to the family itself?! Same applies to income, actually. States have taxes, and may have some sort of natural resource that they can sell or "lease" to private companies for a fee. Something that is really difficult to shoehorn in something remotely similar at the household level. The only "insight" we can obtain from something like a "household economy model" is that if you spend more than what your assets are you will end in debt. Not exactly unexpected. But any kind of measure you might find useful at the household level (e.g.: everyone will fast by skipping 1 meal / week, reducing groceries bills by 7% - nothing to sneeze at, at the household level: https://www.statista.com/statistics/237211/average-food-expenditures-of-united-states-households/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/237211/average-food-expe...) will not really work at the city level, let alone at the state level. And it is not that difficult to understand why, either: enforcing the new law "absolutely nobody will have lunch on wednesday" will be complicated and expensive to enforce at the state level, and require more resources to be devoted to this new task, possibly resulting in a negative gain.