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Phishing for Phools

Paperback • 2016 • English

Phishing for Phools

By George A. Akerlof

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About the book

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 th...Show more

Economics

Book details

ISBN

9780691173023

Publisher

Princeton University Press

Published year

2016

Language

English

Original title

Phishing for Phools

Format

Paperback

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