The Wisdom of Ants
Jaganathan, Shankar About the Book: The Wisdom of Ants: A Short History ofEconomics As the fable goes, in the summer when the ants werebusygathering food, grasshoppers lived a carefree life. Comewinter, the ants lived off their store, while the grasshoppers wereleftstarving. It appears that this lesson was eventually learntbyhumans, who shifted from hunting and gathering to agriculture.Thewisdom of ants that they borrowed did not end here but helpedtolay the foun...