A bold retelling of the story of capitalism, blending fiction and reality to upend 250 years of economic axioms.
For a quarter of a millennium, Adam Smith's invisible, mysterious, bloodstained hand has written the script of our lives. Everyman's book makes the ethereal ink with which this scenario is inscribed clear through his embodiment of the isolated and selfish homo economicus in the character of Neo. Everyman tells the story like a novel, tracing the path of global capitalism from boom to collapse across...Its main characters: the "rational actor" of economics, Neo, and his reckless followers: Finn, the idealistic financial entrepreneur; Davos, Ambassador of Globalization; Wash, the envoy to distant lands; And Tech, the core of the technology industry. In a captivating saga that spans generations and continents, Neo's epic journey takes us from Chicago to New York to London, from Wall Street to Burning Man, from Rust Belt factories to the farms of India, introducing us to the economic minds and political figures who shaped our world.And ordinary people, and even untamed monsters.
In an enjoyable fantasy adventure, Everyman's novel deals with the most important economic events in global history, from the Great Depression to the global financial crisis of 2008, and from Britain's vote to leave the European Union to the steady rise of populism globally. Drawing on moral psychology, philosophy, evolutionary biology, and more, the novel embodies the possibilities of building our capacity to collaborate to reinvent our dysfunctional institutions—and ourselves.By breaking stereotypes to ignite our moral imagination, the novel offers a vision to rewrite our contemporary myths and economic theory. Every human being asks: Can we, by recasting the hero of the imaginary economy as a character of flesh and blood, transform the plot of our lives from an inevitable tragedy to a story of redemption and change the fate of our civilization?
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