It does propose a few questions though. What does 'economic boom' mean in game terms?
May be this can shed some light on the "economic boom": https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=8021
There is a second archive topic about the background sim: https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=6305
It doesn't mean, that anything described there, was implemented exactly as proposed there. ... It may give just some hints.
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-j