George A Akerlof
Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Language
English
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Ever since Adam Smith, the central teaching of economics has been that free markets provide us with material well-being, as if by an invisible hand. In Phishing for Phools, Nobel Prize-winning economists George Akerlof and Robert Shiller deliver a fundamental challenge to this insight, arguing that markets harm as well as help us. As long as there is profit to be made, sellers will systematically exploit our psychological weaknesses and our ignorance...
2) Animal spirits: how human psychology drives the economy, and why it matters for global capitalism
Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
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