Everyman: The Untold Story of Economics

A bold retelling of the story of capitalism that treats the core concepts of economics as living, breathing beings, blending 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-or "rational actor"-as Neo.

Told as an imaginative novel, Everyman trace...