Abstract
Joseph Aschheim and George Tavlas have reminded us of the contributions of Del Mar and the exclusion of his ideas from the mainstream of academic economics. In this paper, I review some of his ideas on monetary economics, monetary history, numismatics, metrology and religion that are relevant to the issue. Del Mar's many-sided genius took him into arcane fields in which he raised questions that had not been asked before and presented answers that were to say the least unconventional and highly controversial. His economics lay outside the academic traditions and biases of his time but his many-sided genius never fails to fascinate. His exclusion from academia did not mean that he was not regarded as a great scholar outside the ivory tower. Moreover, and perhaps more important, he made broad-sweeping generalization about the origins of Western religion and the corruption of church literature that offended church authorities and earned him the enmity of established churches.
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