If eros, as Freud believed, is what binds us to the world, creating ever-larger units of society, economics could be seen as the child of eros. So it has been at least since the eighteenth century, when “commerce” and “intercourse” began to be used interchangeably and the modern idea of the economy was born in […]

Original source: https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2022/12/22/the-trouble-with-money-john-maynard-keynes/