Capitalism is
a religion?
Essays on Capitalism, theology, and power.
Alessandro Freddi is a writer and essayist based in Rome. He writes in English and Italian about Capitalism, religion and the Market.
Latest essays
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3. The Gift Is Never Free
Marcel Mauss and the “hau”: why, in archaic societies, a gift was never free — it carried an obligation to return.
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2. The Banquet and the Contract
What Odysseus’s hosts knew about wealth that your bank doesn’t: a shipwrecked stranger, a banquet, and the difference between a gift and a contract.
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1. Achilles Knew Something We’ve Forgotten
A Bronze Age hero refuses an offer no rational economist would turn down. What Achilles understood about value — and what capitalism quietly reorganized.
From God to Market is a serial history of Capitalism as inherited theology, from Homeric mythology to the technological Singularity, published one essay at a time.