American politicians and policymakers tend to hold certain truths
as self-evident-that the "free market" should be permitted to
control as much of our lives and society as possible, and that the
proper role of government is to get out of the market's way. In
this book, Howard Brody challenges these so-called truths. He shows
first that this way of thinking constitutes a belief system called
economism. He next demonstrates that while economism claims to be a
set of hard-headed scientific facts, it actually functions as a
system of religious or quasi-religious beliefs. He finally traces
the historical roots of economism to reveal that it takes many of
its core ideas from two religious sources-evangelicalism in
nineteenth century England, and the "Protestant Ethic" that evolved
from Calvinist and Puritan beliefs in America in the eighteenth
century. Brody explains that since economism is posing as a
scientific, factual account of the world but actually is not,
deception and stealth necessarily accompany economism wherever it
rears its head. After giving examples of the tragic effects that
policies promoted by economism have had on American life and
culture, Brody discusses what we can do to rescue our future from
this misguided way of thinking.
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