Includes bibliographical references and index.

I believe I can fly -- God of gold -- Prophets for a material age -- The early conversions -- Filling the pews -- Horsemen of the apocalypse -- The neoclassical schism -- The golden age -- Into the valley of the shadow of death -- The people in darkness -- The Keynesian revelation -- The New Jerusalem -- The end of Eden -- The great neoclassical awakening -- Missionaries in heathen lands -- The return of the prophet -- There is no alternative -- The new age -- Magic and the millennium -- Honey, I shrunk the economy! -- Let them eat DSGE models -- The twilight of the money gods.

Imagine one day you went to a cash-machine and found your money was gone. You rushed to your branch, where a teller said that overnight people had stopped believing in money, and it all vanished. Seem incredible? It happened, and it could happen again. Twilight of the Money Gods is the story of economics, told not as the science it strove to be, but as the religion it became. Over two centuries, it searched for the hidden codes which would reveal the path to a promised land of material abundance. While its prophets, from Adam Smith to John Maynard Keynes and Milton Friedman, concerned themselves with the human condition, its priesthood gradually grew remote from its followers, until it lost sight of their tribulations. Today, amid a crisis of faith in their expertise, we must re-imagine an economics for a new era - one filled with both danger and opportunity.