{"product_id":"everyman-antara-haldar-9781982179113","title":"Everyman: The Untold Story of Economics","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom the mind of decorated economist Antara Haldar, \u003ci\u003eEveryman\u003c\/i\u003e is a bold new novelistic retelling of the story of capitalism. Treating economics' core concepts as characters driving the drama, it challenges the orthodoxy and asks: by replacing strawmen with flesh-and-blood protagonists, can we change the plot and avert tragedy?\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFor 250 years, Adam Smith's invisible hand, ghostly and bloodied, has written the script of our lives. \u003ci\u003eEveryman \u003c\/i\u003emakes legible the ethereal ink in which it is etched by embodying economics' exemplar, the textbook \"rational actor\"--the solitary, self-interested homo economicus--as Neo. Blending fact and fiction in dazzling ways, it traces the arc of global capitalism from boom to bust through its key characters: the leading man of economics, Neo, and his reckless apostles--model \"finance bro,\" Finn; ambassador of globalization, Davos; Neo's envoy to distant lands, Wash; and quintessence of the tech industry, Tek. In a saga spanning generations and continents, Neo's epic journey takes us from Chicago to New York to London, from Scotland to the Swiss Alps, from Wall Street to Burning Man, from the Greek debt crisis to the factories of the Rust Belt to the farmlands of India. Along the way, we meet the economic minds and political figures who have shaped our world, everyday people, and even runaway monsters. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e An entertaining magical realist romp through economics, \u003ci\u003eEveryman \u003c\/i\u003etouches on the most significant economic events in global history, from the Great Depression to the 2008 Financial Crisis, Britain's Brexit vote to the inexorable rise of populism globally. Drawing on disciplines ranging from moral psychology to philosophy to evolutionary biology, it animates the possibilities for how we might build on our innate human capacity for cooperation to reinvent our broken institutions--and ourselves. By breaking form to ignite our moral imaginations, \u003ci\u003eEveryman \u003c\/i\u003eaims to inspire hope that by rewriting the modern-day mythology that is our economic theory, we can turn the narrative of our lives into a redemption story and alter the destiny of our civilization.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Antara Haldar\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1982179112\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781982179113\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Avid Reader Press \/ Simon \u0026amp; Schuster\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/08\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 416\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.13lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.25h x 6.13w x 1.07d","brand":"Antara Haldar","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48450531033343,"sku":"9781982179113","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_7cd03b64-43d2-4632-a5ae-aa41ba0cbec5.jpg?v=1777268190","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/everyman-antara-haldar-9781982179113","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}