Dead Economists, Big Ideas

What do your student loans, your paycheck, and the price of your groceries have in common?

They're all shaped by the ideas of economists who've been dead for decades—or even centuries.

Adam Smith's invisible hand. Marx's class struggle. Keynes's government spending sprees. Friedman's free market crusade. These aren't dusty theories—they're the intellectual weapons in today's policy battles over inequality, healthcare, climate change, and whether capitalism itself can survive.

Dead Economists and Their Big Ideas brings economic history to life with irreverence and clarity. Meet the brilliant, eccentric thinkers who built our economic world: the moral philosopher who accidentally invented capitalism, the journalist who predicted its collapse, the aristocrat who saved it during the Great Depression, and the Chicago provocateur who tried to dismantle government itself. Discover why their zombie ideas keep rising from the grave to fight in modern debates about cryptocurrency, universal basic income, and wealth taxes.

From the 2008 financial crisis to trade wars to Modern Monetary Theory, see whose ideas are winning—and whose should stay buried.

Economics isn't boring. It's a cage match of ideas—and you're living in the arena.