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 traces global capitalism’s arc from boom to bust through Neo and his reckless apostles: Finn, the archetypal finance bro; Davos, the ambassador of globalization; Wash, the envoy to distant lands; and Tek, the quintessence of the tech industry. In a dazzling saga spanning generations and continents, Neo’s epic journey takes us from Chicago to New York to London, from Wall Street to Burning Man, from the factories of the Rust Belt to the farmlands of India, introducing us to the economic minds and political figures who have shaped our world, everyday people, and even runaway monsters.
Antara Haldar is a globetrotting economist, philosopher, and lawyer. She is a professor at the University of Cambridge and visiting faculty at Harvard University. Her internationally syndicated column for Project Syndicate has been published in 150 countries, and her writing has appeared in The Atlantic, The Times Literary Supplement (London), WIRED, The Independent, and more. She has been a consultant to the United Nations and the World Justice Project, and her award-winning research has been cited by the World Bank, the White House, and other organizations. She lives between London and New York.
