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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 through manipulation and deception. Rather than being essentially benign and always creating the greater good, markets are inherently filled with tricks and traps and will "phish" us as "phools." Phishing for Phools explores the central role of manipulation and deception in fascinating detail in each of these areas and many more. It thereby explains a paradox: why, at a time when we are better off than ever before in history, all too many of us are leading lives of quiet desperation. At the same time, the book tells stories of individuals who have stood against economic trickery--and how it can be reduced through greater knowledge, reform, and regulation.

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Book category Books in English Economics, finance, business & management Economics

• Full title: Phishing for Phools
• Author: George A. Akerlof, Robert J. Shiller
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288
• EAN: 9780691173023
• ISBN: 9780691173023
• ID: 01018511
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Weight: 364 g
• Dimensions: 204 × 135 × 24 mm
• Date of publishing: 29. July 2016

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