3000barter sparks
Ancient Trade
0 BCE – 500 CE
Barter, temple ledgers, early coinage, and caravan routes turn local surplus into connected markets.
0+ trade corridors mapped
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ledger notes / market myths / policy mutiny
economic.wiki
A fluorescent marginalia tour through economic history.
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500guild noise
Medieval Markets
0 – 1400 CE
Feudal rents, guild privileges, merchant fairs, and banking houses concentrate economic power in fortified towns.
0 years of fairs and charters
1500bullion fever
Mercantilism
0 – 1776
States chase gold, monopolies, tariffs, and empire; colonial extraction redraws the world market in red ink.
0 years to Smith's rupture
Classical Economics
0 – 1870
Smith, Ricardo, and Mill turn markets, labor, value, and growth into a grand theory of industrial capitalism.
0 years of classical canon
1870marginal riot
Neoclassical Turn
0 – 1930s
Utility, marginal costs, equilibrium diagrams, and supply-demand curves give economics its mathematical swagger.
0 marginalist revolutions
1936demand shock
Keynesianism
0 – 1970s
Keynes smashes laissez-faire certainty: aggregate demand, public spending, and employment become political instruments.
0% Depression joblessness peak
1960money chants
Monetarism
0s – 1980s
Friedman revives quantity theory as stagflation turns price stability into the policy obsession.
0% US inflation in 1980
Neoliberalism
0s – 2008
Deregulation, privatization, financialization, and supply chains make markets feel borderless—until they break.
0 years to crisis
2008orthodoxy cracks
Post-Crisis Era
0 – Present
QE, secular stagnation, MMT, inequality, climate risk, and heterodox voices return to the main seminar room.
0 new policy frontiers
Core Economic Concepts
Supply & Demand
Equilibrium redrawn as Memphis squiggle warfare between scarcity and desire.
Utility & Value
Preference, satisfaction, and marginal choices without the grey textbook dust.
Inflation & Deflation
Price-level motion as ticker tape with teeth and policy consequences.
Market Power
Competition, monopoly, regulation, and who gets to write the rules.
economic.wiki
Economics is not neutral wallpaper.
It is a living vine of arguments, ledgers, crises, and rebellious diagrams.