Are the School of Commerce and the School of Economics the Same?

[Core Room]

"Since this is the Library-City Dungeon, I'd think any dungeon monster would have the knowledge of it from the start."

"Yes."

"So then. We open a large-scale human farm and harvest emotional energy without ever running the risk of being subjugated by adventurers. That's the management policy of this dungeon. The guiding principle is, 'To realize a life rich and healthy in both spirit and substance.' To that end we increase our fields, build villages, and gather immigrants."

"A human farm's one of the standard plays of a dungeon that means to succeed. Mind, it does ratchet up the difficulty of running the place, since you've got outside personnel, the residents, mixed in on top of the dungeon monsters."

"Now, as for the sales work to be done at this dungeon. But before that, how exactly do the School of Commerce and the School of Economics differ?"

"If I may explain in the very simplest terms, the easiest way to think of it is this: the School of Economics studies the mechanisms of the economy, while the School of Commerce trains its focus on businesses and products. If anything, economics is closer to applied mathematics, and commerce is more of a pure social science."

"Eh, once you're out in the world there's hardly any difference in what you actually do. You sit the bare minimum of lectures, learn your human relations in your circle, learn how to handle complainers from your part-time job, learn how to set the mood at a mixer, and turn into a fine salesman. Mind you, since dungeon monsters never went to school, it's all just 'setting.'"

"So it's not some historical accident like Hanshin University having three engineering faculties, it's a subtle difference," said Marie. (At Hanshin University, owing to mergers of predecessor schools and the like, the Faculty of Engineering is at Suita, the Faculty of Basic Engineering at Toyonaka, and the Kobe Faculty of Engineering at Rokkōdai.) There are, in the world, universities that hold all three of an Economics, a Business Administration, and a Commerce faculty.

"And what's at Naruo is the racecourse."

That part is wrong.

"There's the way of picking the School of Commerce over the School of Economics 'cause you're bad at math. But even if you're bad at math, you'd best learn to love numbers."

"I half follow and half don't. Anyway, the work for the two of you. At first it's only using the dungeon system to make fields and housing, so there shouldn't be any trouble. Marie-san has put together an easy-to-follow manual, so just proceed according to that and you'll be fine."

"The problem comes after that," said Marie. "We must organize the great mass of settlers and build a society. And further, we must construct a stable economic system centered on this dungeon. Can I count on you?"

Marie was parceling out the work.

"In short, run the organization. That's what you're sayin'."

"If we define the customers as the residents," said Scarlet, "then there's the problem that the principle is abstract and hollow, but as a direction it has appeal, and if we can make the code of conduct explicit, there should be no fatal issue."