Economics 101

What This Book Covers

1. Chapter One - Before Value Had Numbers
2. Chapter Two - The First Money
3. Chapter Three - Empire Economics
4. Chapter Four - God, Guilt, and Guilds
5. Chapter Five - The Merchant Explosion
6. Chapter Six - Capitalism: The Remix
7. Chapter Seven - Boom, Bust, and Blood
8. Chapter Eight - Keynes vs. Hayek
9. Chapter Nine - Global Game
10. Chapter Ten - Clicks and Coins
11. Chapter Eleven - 2008, Bailouts, and the Vibes of Collapse
12. Chapter Twelve - Beyond the Market

Excerpt

CHAPTER ONE Before Value Had Numbers BEFORE COINS. BEFORE banks. Before anyone argued about GDP or inflation, there were just two people staring each other down trying to figure out what was fair. You have meat. I have fire. You’re hungry. I’m cold. We trade. Deal done. There were no spreadsheets. No ledgers. No decimal points or interest rates. Only trust, need, and the ever-wobbly scale of “is this worth it?” In the earliest days of human exchange, value didn’t exist in objects. It existed in relationships. You didn’t trade with strangers. You traded with your kin, your tribe, your hunting party. If someone shorted you, you remembered. If someone helped you, they rose in status. Value was...