The Modest Proposal Institute's Founders are looking for a return to mankind's past inventiveness, which they see being lost. Their belief is confirmed when the teenage pupils of the Institute become men who go on to use their programming skills to amass fortunes, before heading out into space and down to the ocean floor. Modest Proposal Institute Books 1 - 3 are now 99 cents. Book 4, the final volume, is published June 4.