Every ordinary price — the wage, the rent, the rate — is a verdict on a hidden contest, commonly mistaken for a fact of nature. These are the elements: twenty-six primitives of economic life, each the subject of a volume, each to be turned inside out with the rigor of the seminar and the grace of the essay. The work is to fix a numéraire of honesty against which the verdicts can finally be read. Volume I, The Wage, is complete; Volume II, The Rent, is under way.
in printin preparationEach tile: a symbol, a volume, and the primitive it anatomizes. Select one to open it.