What this chamber argues

• Economics models scarcity, incentives, and exchange.
• It compresses social complexity into abstractions with real consequences.

Primary works in this chamber (14)

• Karl Marx — Capital, Volume I (1867) — Book
• Adam Smith — An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations (1776) — Book
• Thorstein Veblen — The Theory of the Leisure Class (1899) — Book
• David Ricardo — On The Principles of Political Economy, and Taxation (1817) — Book
• John Stuart Mill — Principles of Political Economy (1848) — Book
• Thomas Robert Malthus — An Essay on the Principle of Population (1798) — Book
• Alfred Marshall — Principles of Economics (1890) — Book
• Jean-Baptiste Say — A Treatise on Political Economy (1803) — Book
• Carl Menger — Principles of Economics (1871) — Book
• William Stanley Jevons — The Theory of Political Economy (1871) — Book
• Henry George — Progress and Poverty (1879) — Book
• John Maynard Keynes — The Economic Consequences of the Peace (1919) — Book
• Frédéric Bastiat — The Law (1850) — Book
• Thorstein Veblen — The Theory of Business Enterprise (1904) — Book

Connected chambers

• Philosophy of Science — Models and assumptions
• Statistics — Data ↔ markets