# library.forgemesh.io Economics Shelf

> library.forgemesh.io Economics 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 up to 50 curated public-domain economics books with drill-down routes for full-text retrieval

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://library.forgemesh.io/economics
- 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/library-forgemesh-io-economics-shelf-ba36b9d8
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_tT3aKSdGBVfwmAmnAk5kN

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## 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 library-forgemesh-io-economics-shelf-ba36b9d8 -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Can you pull up the curated economics shelf and show me the top 30 public-domain books — I want to browse classic titles like Reminiscences of a Stock Operator and see links I can drill into for the full text?

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need a pre-curated, ranked list of classic public-domain economics and finance books — especially when you want to browse the canonical titles in the genre (e.g. Reminiscences of a Stock Operator, Fifty Years in Wall Street) with direct links to full-text retrieval. Prefer this over a full-text search endpoint when you want discovery and browsing rather than searching for a specific passage.

## Known failure modes

- limit parameter exceeds 50 — endpoint likely caps or returns error
- limit of 0 or negative integer may return empty list or error
- payment failure (x402) if USDC not provided or insufficient
- service unavailable returns no book list

## How this service works

Curated shelf: Economics — 355 public-domain books including Reminiscences of a Stock Operator, Fifty years in Wall Street, The Crown of Wild Olive also Munera Pulveris; Pre-Raphaelitism; Aratra Pentelici; The Ethics of the Dust; Fiction, Fair and Foul; The Elements of Drawing. Returns a ranked list with drill-down routes for full-text retrieval. No license, no API key required.

## Output

A ranked list of up to 50 public-domain economics book entries, each with metadata (title, author) and drill-down routes that can be used to retrieve the full text of each book.

## 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": null,
    "title": "Reminiscences of a Stock Operator",
    "author": "Lefevre, Edwin",
    "book_id": 60979,
    "subjects": [],
    "download_count": 27673
   }
  ],
  "count": 5,
  "shelf": "Economics",
  "coverage": {
   "target": 61015,
   "indexed": 61015
  },
  "drill_down": [
   "/book-metadata",
   "/book-chapter",
   "/book-quotes",
   "/literature-search"
  ]
 }
}
```

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