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Economics and literary criticism are far from mutually uncomprehending strangers.

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.