Full Idea
The economy has progressively acquired the central place in the system of knowledge and research. Re-enacting the privilege of theocracy in the Middle Ages.
Gist of Idea
The economy has replaced medieval theocracy at the centre of our society
Source
Franco 'Bifo' Berardi (The Second Coming [2019], I 'Knowledge')
Book Reference
Berardi,Franco 'Bifo': 'The Second Coming' [polity 2019], p.18
A Reaction
Illuminating. This is indeed how the economy is treated, centring on Gross National Product (no matter how distributed), and economic league tables. Is it even a quasi-religion?