Ryan Avent is director of portfolio communications at Select Equity Group and a former journalist at The Economist. He is the author of The Wealth of Humans: Work, Power, and Status in the Twenty-first Century. He lives in Raleigh, NC, and New York City.

“What are the social devices we use to transcend a world that seems to have gone mad? Why have so many people lost their social bearings? Few authors write as inspirationally about the intertwined thread of faith, history, and economics as Ryan Avent does in this book. In Good Faith is a religious book which doesn’t require a faith in God or theology but rather a faith in the power of belief, and shows why it is critical to contemporary society and politics.”—Tyler Cowen, George Mason University“Read In Good Faith if you want to grapple with the very biggest questions: Where did growth come from? What is our potential as a society? And how can we avoid failure? This mind-stretching book draws on history, evolutionary biology, anthropology and economics to argue that we are shaped by common beliefs that are much more malleable than people often assume. Avent meets the gravity of today’s problems with an energising and hopeful call to action, to have faith in our ability to be and do better.”—Soumaya Keynes, economics columnist for the Financial Times

Ryan Avent is director of portfolio communications at Select Equity Group and a former journalist at The Economist. He is the author of The Wealth of Humans: Work, Power, and Status in the Twenty-first Century. He lives in Raleigh, NC, and New York City.

“What are the social devices we use to transcend a world that seems to have gone mad? Why have so many people lost their social bearings? Few authors write as inspirationally about the intertwined thread of faith, history, and economics as Ryan Avent does in this book. In Good Faith is a religious book which doesn’t require a faith in God or theology but rather a faith in the power of belief, and shows why it is critical to contemporary society and politics.”—Tyler Cowen, George Mason University“Read In Good Faith if you want to grapple with the very biggest questions: Where did growth come from? What is our potential as a society? And how can we avoid failure? This mind-stretching book draws on history, evolutionary biology, anthropology and economics to argue that we are shaped by common beliefs that are much more malleable than people often assume. Avent meets the gravity of today’s problems with an energising and hopeful call to action, to have faith in our ability to be and do better.”—Soumaya Keynes, economics columnist for the Financial Times

Ryan Avent is director of portfolio communications at Select Equity Group and a former journalist at The Economist. He is the author of The Wealth of Humans: Work, Power, and Status in the Twenty-first Century. He lives in Raleigh, NC, and New York City.

“What are the social devices we use to transcend a world that seems to have gone mad? Why have so many people lost their social bearings? Few authors write as inspirationally about the intertwined thread of faith, history, and economics as Ryan Avent does in this book. In Good Faith is a religious book which doesn’t require a faith in God or theology but rather a faith in the power of belief, and shows why it is critical to contemporary society and politics.”—Tyler Cowen, George Mason University“Read In Good Faith if you want to grapple with the very biggest questions: Where did growth come from? What is our potential as a society? And how can we avoid failure? This mind-stretching book draws on history, evolutionary biology, anthropology and economics to argue that we are shaped by common beliefs that are much more malleable than people often assume. Avent meets the gravity of today’s problems with an energising and hopeful call to action, to have faith in our ability to be and do better.”—Soumaya Keynes, economics columnist for the Financial Times