# ForgeMesh Library – Economics & Politics Shelf

> ForgeMesh Library – Economics & Politics Shelf is a paid API for AI agents from library.forgemesh.io, paid per call via x402, $0.003/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-13).

Returns a ranked list of public-domain economics and political-theory books with title, author, year, book_id, and drill-down routes for full-text retrieval.

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://library.forgemesh.io/economics-and-politics
- Price: $0.003/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-13
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/forgemesh-library-economics-politics-shelf-664cb70b
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_Td4lS3kgpwoB-IIbr1jxa

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability forgemesh-library-economics-politics-shelf-664cb70b -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Show me up to 30 of the most historically popular public-domain economics and politics books from the ForgeMesh library, including their titles, authors, years, and IDs so I can fetch the full text later.

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need a curated, popularity-ranked index of public-domain economics and political-theory texts — especially when you want book IDs to pass to full-text retrieval routes. Prefer it over a full-corpus search when you want a broad browse rather than a keyword match, and when the subject matter is specifically economics or politics rather than philosophy, history, or fiction (which have their own sibling shelves).

## Known failure modes

- Requesting a limit above 50 may return an error or be capped at 50
- Payment failure (x402) if USDC balance is insufficient
- Empty result set if the shelf has no indexed books matching the category
- Network timeout or 5xx if the service is temporarily unavailable

## How this service works

Curated shelf of public-domain economics, politics, and political-theory texts, ranked by historical popularity. Returns title, author, year, book_id, and drill-down routes for full-text retrieval. No license, no API key required.

## Output

A ranked list of up to 50 public-domain economics and politics books, each with title, author, publication year, a unique book_id, and drill-down routes that can be used to retrieve the full text of each work.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "properties": {
  "limit": {
   "type": "integer",
   "description": "Max books to return (default 20, max 50)"
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json",
 "example": {
  "books": [
   {
    "year": "1998",
    "title": "The Prince",
    "author": "Machiavelli, Niccolò, 1469-1527",
    "book_id": 1232,
    "subjects": [
     "Political science -- Early works to 1800"
    ],
    "download_count": 6000
   }
  ],
  "count": 5,
  "shelf": "Economics & Politics",
  "coverage": {
   "target": 1000,
   "indexed": 865
  },
  "drill_down": [
   "/book-metadata",
   "/book-chapter",
   "/book-quotes",
   "/literature-search"
  ]
 }
}
```

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