Embedded Economics v. 0.3

Literary Works with Economic Insight


Introduction


“Margin of Profit” by Poul Anderson (Link is to a Google Books volume that contains most of it. This may also work.) My Comments

“The Jigsaw Man” by Larry Niven:  My Comments

“Life-Line” by Robert Heinlein: My Comments

Herodotus on the marriage market in Babylonia:   My Comments


"Two Hundred Dinars" from al-Tanukhi: My Comments

"The Cambist and Lord Iron" by Daniel Abraham: My Comments

Solomon’s Judgement: My Comments

“The Verger” by Somerset Maugham and
“The Land” by Rudyard Kipling: My Comments

Review
by George Orwell of The Road to Serfdom by F.A. Hayek / The Mirror of the Past by K. Zilliacus


"An Infuriating Man," 
Leo Rosten, People I have Loved, Known or Admired, p. 131.  

“Imitations of Horace”  by Alexander Pope: My Comments

"An Imperial Rescript" by Rudyard Kipling: My Comments

"Interviewing Leather" by Eric Burns-White: My Comments

"The Calf Path" by Sam Walter Foss: My Comments

“The Baldness of Chewed Ear” by Robert Service

“A !Tangled Web” by Joe Haldeman

“And Then There Were None” by Eric Frank Russell

"The Binding of Fenrir" from The Prose Edda by Snorri Sturluson: My Comments

Revealed Preference

"Love, though for this you riddle me with darts," (Millay): My Comments

"Frosk" from The Joys of Yiddish by Leo Rosten: My Comment

The Broken Window Fallacy

“The Petition of the Candlemakers” by Bastiat

"Business as Usual During Alterations" by Ralph Williams


War and Peace

“Arithmetic on the Frontier” by Rudyard Kipling

“The Peace of Dives,” by Rudyard Kipling


Suggestions of additional suitable works are welcome. I discussed what I was looking for and why in a blog post.