Everyman: The Untold Story of Economics

A bold retelling of the story of capitalism that blends fiction and fact to upend 250 years of economic orthodoxy.

For a quarter of a millennium, Adam Smith’s invisible hand, ghostly and bloodied, has written the script of our lives. Everyman makes the ethereal ink in which it is etched legible by embodying the solitary, self-interested homo economicus as Neo. Telling the tale as a novel, Everyman traces global capitalism’s arc from boom to bust through its key characters: economics’ textboo...