economic.wiki
A forbidden field guide to value systems growing under a fallen marketplace.
Supply, debt, labor, prices, and trust are treated as damp organisms: fed by scarcity, tangled by promises, and lit by strange exchange.
The Root Market
Every trade begins as a root hair seeking another need. Grain becomes bread, bread becomes labor, labor becomes a story someone believes.
The Scarcity Pantry
Scarcity is the shelf that is never quite full. It does not mean nothing exists; it means wanting creatures must choose what gets fed first.
Choice is the tiny knife. Opportunity cost is the peel left behind.
The Debt Tunnel
A promise can carry value through darkness. Tie it gently and it bridges seasons; pull it cruelly and the tunnel learns to choke.
credit = trust stored in a fragile container
The Price Mycelium
Prices glow like fungal threads because they condense rumor, effort, shortage, distance, risk, and desire into a single edible signal.
The Commons Pool
Some goods do not fit in a private pouch: clean water, safe paths, shared language, a quiet bridge. The commons asks how creatures guard what feeds them all.