Here is Ezra Pound’s Usura Canto, here is a link to Russell Roberts’s The Price of Everything: A Parable of Possibility and Prosperity, available for pre-order. Can you guess which one has the better economics? In fact Russ’s book is the best attempt to teach economics through fiction that the world has seen to date.
Here is Russ’s summary of the book. Here is Arnold Kling on the book.
Issac Asimov helped me realize the power of economics and sociology through his Foundation books. Both of which I feel go hand and hand.
as for fiction teaching econ…
“Saving Adam Smith” by Jonathan Wight. Interesting adventure with the ghost of Adam Smith dispensing wisdom along the way.
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