Tag: Joseph Vogl

Litonomics

Economics and literary criticism are far from mutually uncomprehending strangers.

The End of An Illusion

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

A Religion of Unbelief

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

The Paradox of Economism

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

Money’s Other Worlds

On the magical underpinnings of our ostensibly rational economies.

Heterodox Economics: A Blog Series

Markets are too important to leave to economists alone.

The Specter of Capital in Cosmopolis

The allegorical import behind Don DeLillo’s 2003 novel. By Joseph Vogl