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. Volumes I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII, VIII, IX, X, XI, XII, XIII, XIV, XV, XVI, XVII, XVIII, XIX, XX, XXI, XXII, XXIII, XXIV, XXV, and XXVI — The Wage, The Rent, The Rate, The Premium, The Spread, The Margin, The Surplus, The Utility, The Stock, The Power, The Externality, The Asymmetry, The Commons, The Firm, The Contract, The Money, The Tax, The Rule, The Cycle, The Growth, The Level, The Share, The Choice, The Bias, The Game, and The Norm — are in print.
in printin preparationEach tile: a symbol, a volume, and the primitive it anatomizes. Select one to open it.