History of economic thought, in playable models
Every economic theory is a claim about how things flow: grain, coin, labour, debt, ideas. Here each one is a small model you can play. Move its two Levers and watch the outcome change.
These are teaching models: each keeps only the theory's core loop and leaves out everything else a real economy has.
Ancient
Before 500 CETemples, kings and granaries: the first economies ran on stored grain, credit and tribute.
Medieval
500 to 1500Faith, land and guilds set the rules for prices, interest and work.
Early modern
1500 to 1776Silver from the Americas, trade wars and the first statistics turned the economy into a matter of state.
Classical
1776 to 1870Markets, specialisation and trade as engines of wealth, and the limits of land and population.
Marxian
1840 to 1930Labour, capital and the socialist debate over who keeps the surplus and who plans.
Keynesian
1930 to 1970Demand, cycles and growth after the Great Depression.
Post-war
1970 to 2005Expectations, markets, commons and behaviour: the economy re-examined.
Play the economists against each other
Rebuild a classic theory as a diagram, change its assumptions and see where it holds and where it breaks.