Moneymania: Wealth, Power and the Cult of Economics

by The Rebel Accountant

352 pages, Hardcover

Published July 7, 2026

Reviews

[James Greenbury · Rating 5 out of 5]

Economics written with humour and lightness (and leftish tilt)! Plus an inspiring promotion of Henry George and Land Tax

[Joe · Rating 5 out of 5]

Highly readable, witty, though provoking, enraging, given enough time I could have easily read it in one go. The revelation (and it was a revelation) of the Georgist approach to economic thinking was astonishing both in its content and its omission from every day discourse. This book has inspired me to read poverty and progress for myself and has finally given me a satisfactory answer as to why economics always feels so false. I did not realise for example that economists tend to theorise based on pure thought and then stick with it rather than pursuing any actual scientific methods of verification. My field is physics and this approach to serious theory was binned about 300 years ago. Sticking with the physics parallel I said to my partner it was like learning that there’s a fifth fundamental force than I just wasn’t taught about at university.

[Chris Aylott · Rating 4 out of 5]

The tone is light-hearted, but that just leavens the existential horror. The Rebel Accountant makes an strong case for classical and neoclassical economics as a modern version of The Great Chain of Being -- lies that the powerful tell the powerless to keep them in their place. The fact that I had barely heard of Henry George (despite the fact that his land taxation ideas are actually pretty well represented where I live) is especially damning.