Phishing for Phools - The Economics of Manipulation and Deception

2016/9/18 16:52:12

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.


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Two of the world’s great economists, George Akerlof and Robert Shiller, have written a new book that brings some radical new thinking to the orthodox attitudes to the market. And who better to explain the book and its concepts than one of the Nobel-winning authors, Robert Shiller, in a video accessible at the link below:

http://press.princeton.edu/titles/10534.html

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