In Good Faith: How the Nature of Belief Shapes the Fate of Societies

How a society's capacity for belief forms the foundation of its success

Do you struggle to find reasons to feel optimistic about the future? Are you trying to understand the creeping institutional dysfunction we see the world over? In this book, Ryan Avent explores how an unswerving confidence in systems of liberal democracy and free market capitalism-which he terms the “Modern Faith”-has left many Western countries struggling to deal with democratic backsliding and social dysfunction. Those...