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 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 – Sven Beckert
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 – Anne-Marie Slaughter
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 – Yanis Varoufakis
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 – Ravi Agrawal
Imagine if Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance had been about economics and if Salman Rushdie had pondered the ghoulish progeny of Adam Smith’s invisible hand. Imagine no more. Antara Haldar has done it for you: a delightful cartwheel through the dismal science and a plea for us to become masters of our economy and not the other way around – David Pilling

Antara Haldar is a professor at the University of Cambridge and Visiting Faculty at Harvard University. She writes a globally syndicated monthly column for Project Syndicate, and has been published in The Atlantic, Times Literary Supplement, WIRED, and elsewhere. Her award-winning research has received millions of dollars in funding, been covered by major media platforms like the Financial Times and NPR, and cited by the World Development Report and the White House.

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