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    The Enchantments of Mammon: How Capitalism Became the Religion of Modernity

    Written by Eugene McCarraher

    Narrated by Paul Boehmer

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    If socialists and Wall Street bankers can agree on anything, it is the extreme rationalism of capital. Ignoring the motive force of the spirit, capitalism rejects the awe-inspiring divine for the economics of supply and demand.



    Eugene McCarraher challenges this conventional view. Capitalism, he argues, is full of sacrament, whether or not it is acknowledged. Capitalist enchantment first flowered in the fields and factories of England and was brought to America by Puritans and evangelicals whose doctrine made ample room for industry and profit. Later, the corporation was mystically animated with human personhood, to preside over the Fordist endeavor to build a heavenly city of mechanized production and communion. By the twenty-first century, capitalism has become thoroughly enchanted by the neoliberal deification of "the market."



    The Enchantments of Mammon looks not to Marx and progressivism but to nineteenth-century Romantics for salvation. The Romantic imagination favors craft, the commons, and sensitivity to natural wonder. It promotes labor that, for the sake of the person, combines reason, creativity, and mutual aid. In this impassioned challenge, McCarraher makes the case that capitalism has hijacked and redirected our intrinsic longing for divinity—and urges us to break its hold on our souls.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Audio
    Release dateAug 4, 2020
    ISBN9781705214268

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    • 5/5
      One of the best books I’ve ever read. A powerful history of the economy of America, and the failure of its pecuniary promised land. McCarraher deftly and thoroughly examines several points of view within different schools, and then within different eras, to give a full picture of the economic landscape and its topical shifts over time, puncturing feeble (yet sometimes victorious) ideas with a sacralized humanism that is impossible to evade.

      Read this book to understand the history and development of economic theories, or to find a true-hearted moral compass amidst the detritus of avarice and exploitation. For whatever reason you read this book, one this is clear: you are the winner.
    • 5/5
      Brilliant, well sourced and illuminating!

      I’ve been trying to understand the modern ever changing but somehow the same world we live in, and I’ve read a lot and learned a lot about many things.

      However this book gets to the deep beating heart of it.