Tomas Sedlacek gained international fame for his award-winning, bestselling book Economics of Good and Evil: The Quest for Economic Meaning from Gilgamesh to Wall Street (2011), which has been translated into 17 languages. The book received the prestigious German “Wirtschaftsbuchpreis” at the Frankfurt Book Fair for its original philosophical contribution to economics. In 2015, Sedlacek was listed among the top 100 most influential global thinkers.
Born in 1977 in Prague, Sedlacek became an economic advisor to Czech President Václav Havel at the age of 24. He later joined the National Economics Council, serving as an advisory body to the Czech Prime Minister. During his fellowship at Yale University, the Yale Economic Review ranked him among the top five hot young minds in economics.
Tomas Sedlacek gained international fame for his award-winning, bestselling book Economics of Good and Evil: The Quest for Economic Meaning from Gilgamesh to Wall Street (2011), which has been translated into 17 languages. The book received the prestigious German “Wirtschaftsbuchpreis” at the Frankfurt Book Fair for its original philosophical contribution to economics. In 2015, Sedlacek was listed among the top 100 most influential global thinkers.
Born in 1977 in Prague, Sedlacek became an economic advisor to Czech President Václav Havel at the age of 24. He later joined the National Economics Council, serving as an advisory body to the Czech Prime Minister. During his fellowship at Yale University, the Yale Economic Review ranked him among the top five hot young minds in economics.
