PublishedPrinceton University Press, July 2016 |
ISBN9780691173023 |
FormatSoftcover, 288 pages |
Dimensions20.3cm × 13.3cm |
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