Antara Haldar

How did a world emerge in which we give extraordinary powers to a human-made god we call “the market,” and then allow that god to rule, even subdue, us? Everyman is a piercing and deeply learned condemnation of how thinking about economic life became impoverished by fantastic assumptions about human nature and efforts to divorce the understanding of economic life from society. A tragedy told in the mode of an epic, Haldar’s book is indispensable reading for anyone trying to come to terms with our contemporary economic and political dilemmas

Everyman is a fable of breathtaking sweep and sharp insight, a book that belongs on economics syllabi and bedside tables alike. Haldar also brilliantly pulls together the sparks of a revolution that is almost here

Everyman is not a book. It is an exorcism. For 250 years, economics has armed the bloodied hand that clenches our throat. Antara Haldar's new book is a psychological drama unveiling an oppressive pseudoscience, a tragedy that refuses its own curtain. Read it and you will no longer ask who economics is for

A fun, funny, and brilliant romp through the history of modern economics. Everyman reads like a novel but its core is about a battle of ideas, and whether economics truly helps people or merely grows capital. Haldar’s masterful book is a timely and urgent parable on the global fight against inequality

The Story of Economics in Three Acts

For 250 years, a ghostly hand—bloodied and invisible—has scripted our lives. Telling the story of economics like never before, Everyman makes legible the ethereal ink in which it’s etched. 
 
A character-driven psychological drama, it presents economics’ leading man, Neo, the textbook rational actor – with his apostles, Finn, the model ‘finance bro,’ Davos, globalization’s ambassador, Wash, envoy to distant lands, and Tek, the quintessence of the tech industry – tracing their rise through the most significant moments of global economic history: the birth of capitalism to the Great Depression, the Financial Crisis to the ascent of populism. But with the by-the-book Gini and her sister, Palma, protesting the system, Tek contemplating a coup, Ordinary Joe losing patience, and a runaway monster, are they on the edge of a precipitous fall? 
 
Kaleidoscopic like global capitalism, Everyman blends fact and fiction, future and history, tragedy and comedy. It combines novelistic flair and cutting-edge research to offer a bold new vision, built on emotion and social cooperation. If we replace a strawman—economics’ apocryphal protagonist—with flesh-and-blood, could we avert tragedy and alter the plot of capitalism? And, as Economic Man and Everyman battle for its soul, who, ultimately, is economics for?

Antara Haldar

Praise for Everyman

How did a world emerge in which we give extraordinary powers to a human-made god we call “the market,” and then allow that god to rule, even subdue, us? Everyman is a piercing and deeply learned condemnation ...

Everyman is a fable of breathtaking sweep and sharp insight, a book that belongs on economics syllabi and bedside tables alike. Haldar also brilliantly pulls together the sparks of a revolution that is almost ...

Everyman is not a book. It is an exorcism. For 250 years, economics has armed the bloodied hand that clenches our throat. Antara Haldar's new book is a psychological drama unveiling an oppressive pseudoscienc ...

How did a world emerge in which we give extraordinary powers to a human-made god we call “the market,” and then allow that god to rule, even subdue, us? Everyman is a piercing and deeply learned condemnation ...

Everyman is a fable of breathtaking sweep and sharp insight, a book that belongs on economics syllabi and bedside tables alike. Haldar also brilliantly pulls together the sparks of a revolution that is almost ...

Everyman is not a book. It is an exorcism. For 250 years, economics has armed the bloodied hand that clenches our throat. Antara Haldar's new book is a psychological drama unveiling an oppressive pseudoscienc ...

How did a world emerge in which we give extraordinary powers to a human-made god we call “the market,” and then allow that god to rule, even subdue, us? Everyman is a piercing and deeply learned condemnation ...

Everyman is a fable of breathtaking sweep and sharp insight, a book that belongs on economics syllabi and bedside tables alike. Haldar also brilliantly pulls together the sparks of a revolution that is almost ...

Everyman is not a book. It is an exorcism. For 250 years, economics has armed the bloodied hand that clenches our throat. Antara Haldar's new book is a psychological drama unveiling an oppressive pseudoscienc ...

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