Written in Wendell Berry's trademark graceful, back-to-basics style, Berry's latest collection of essays addresses the pressing problem of contemporary financial structures. There is no vocabulary more given to obfuscation than that of the academics and professionals working within economics. Berry's clear, accessible prose is a much-needed antidote, in the form of a collection of essays: written over the course of 25 years, these essays show that clarity has all but disappeared in the world of economics, leading to the current economic fiasco.