On The Disorder of Desire

Keynes, Augustine, and Girard on Abundance, Rivalry, and the Future of Civilization

“The economic problem is not, if we look into the future, the permanent problem of the human race.” - John Maynard Keynes

In 1930, in the shadow of the Great Depression, John Maynard Keynes wrote an essay that remains one of the most audacious predictions in the history of economic thought. Rather than focusing on the crisis immediately surrounding him, …