Economica is to be an exhibit designed along the lines of the IBM exhibit prepared by Charles and Ray Eames on the World of Mathematics. It will provide a broad overview of the development of economic and financial practice and theory. This will include economic history sketches of central figures from Aristotle, Adam Smith, Karl Marx, Keynes, Schumpeter and many others. Also covered must be the key inputs from other disciplines, in particular accounting, mathematics and legal thought.

Along with a histomap of great economists; there will also be a display of great financiers, analysts or instrument and institution innovators. This includes individuals such as John Law, the Medici, the Fuggers, the Rothschilds, J.P. Morgan, Benjamin Graham and Warren Buffet.

Other exhibits will stress economics and finance in everyday life, the roles of chance and time and the importance of insurance and saving in dealing with them; the evolution of the market economy; production and innovation; the concepts of economic efficiency; the economic aspects of the family life cycle as well as the distribution of income.

Economica will contain several games and simulations illustrating markets, production, insurance and the role of public goods, taxation and the central bank. An estimate of the cost of the Economica exhibit is approximately $5,000,000 for two copies.