I: Ancient economics and beyond
The epic of Gilgamesh: on effectiveness, immortality, and the economics of friendship
The Old Testament: earthliness and goodness
Christianity: spirituality in the material world
Bernard Mandeville's beehive of vice
Adam Smith, blacksmith of economics
III: Blasphemous thoughts
Need for greed: the history of want
Progress, new Adam, and Sabbath economics
The axis of good and evil and the Bibles of economics
The history of the invisible hand of the market and homo economicus
The history of animal spirits: the dream never sleeps
Masters of truth: science, myths, and faith
Conclusion: where the wild things are.
