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How IQ fosters the virtues that gave rise to the modern commercial world.

Trump’s popularity belies Americans’ desire for an “outsider” voice.

Economic theory is deeply theological; to imagine otherwise makes it a dangerous knowledge.

The magical thinking of economists is a pathology of thought with deep historical roots.

On the rift between mundane money and its mystical financial shadow.

Modern money and finance is held together by faith, magic, and belief.

On the magical underpinnings of our ostensibly rational economies.

Markets are too important to leave to economists alone.

How women’s unique experiences are shaping their approaches to venture creation.

Human rights, as popularly conceived, have a troubling genealogy. By Boaventura de Sousa Santos