This brilliant assessment of how the field of economics came to resemble a religion is “a must-read for all” (Avinash Persaud, Prospect).Imagine one day you went to a cash machine and found your money was gone. You rushed to your branch, where a teller said that overnight people had stopped believing in money, and it all vanished. Seem incredible? It happened, and it could happen again.Twilight of the Money Gods is the story of economics, told not as the science it strove to be, but as the religion it became. Over two centuries, it searched for the hidden codes that would reveal the path to a promised land of material abundance. While its prophets, from Adam Smith to John Maynard Keynes and Milton Friedman, concerned themselves with the human condition, its priesthood gradually grew remote from its followers, until it lost sight of their tribulations. Today, amid a crisis of faith in their expertise, we must reimagine an economics for a new era—one filled with both danger and opportunity.“Fascinating.” —Giles Fraser, BBC“Wide-ranging and entertainingly written.” —David Orrell, World Finance
