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Index
Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Foreword by Václav Havel
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Story of Economics: From Poetry to Science
Part I : Ancient Economics and Beyond
1 The Epic of Gilgamesh: On Effectiveness, Immortality, and the Economics of Friendship
2 The Old Testament: Earthliness and Goodness
3 Ancient Greece
4 Christianity: Spirituality in the Material World
5 Descartes the Mechanic
6 Bernard Mandeville’s Beehive of Vice
7 Adam Smith, Blacksmith of Economics
Part II: Blasphemous Thoughts
8 Need for Greed: The History of Want
9 Progress, New Adam, and Sabbath Economics
10 The Axis of Good and Evil and the Bibles of Economics
11The History of the Invisible Hand of the Market and Homo Economicus
12 The History of Animal Spirits: The Dream Never Sleeps
13 Metamathematics
14 Masters of Truth: Science, Myths, and Faith
Conclusion: Where the Wild Things Are
Bibliography
Index
Footnote
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