Selected reading: Named section and worked examples.
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What gives something value?
Work through the model, then identify a real-world institution or assumption the model leaves out.
Ideas and questions
Read background definitions when a term blocks the argument. Then return to the source and reconstruct its claim in your own words.
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Principles of Economics
Carl Menger. Compare assumptions, evidence and scope with the source above. These are editorial companions, not necessarily direct responses.
The Use of Knowledge in Society
Friedrich Hayek. Compare assumptions, evidence and scope with the source above. These are editorial companions, not necessarily direct responses.
Value and Capital
John Hicks. Compare assumptions, evidence and scope with the source above. These are editorial companions, not necessarily direct responses.
Microeconomic Theory
Mas-Colell, Whinston · Green. Compare assumptions, evidence and scope with the source above. These are editorial companions, not necessarily direct responses.
Misbehaving
Richard Thaler. Compare assumptions, evidence and scope with the source above. These are editorial companions, not necessarily direct responses.