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Narrative Economics: How Stories Go Viral and Drive Major Economic Events

English

By (author): Robert J. Shiller

From Nobel Prizewinning economist and New York Times bestselling author Robert Shiller, a groundbreaking account of how stories help drive economic eventsand why financial panics can spread like epidemic viruses

In a world in which internet troll farms attempt to influence foreign elections, can we afford to ignore the power of viral stories to affect economies? In this groundbreaking book, Nobel Prizewinning economist and New York Times bestselling author Robert Shiller offers a new way to think about the economy and economic change. Using a rich array of historical examples and data, Shiller argues that studying popular stories that affect individual and collective economic behaviorwhat he calls narrative economicshas the potential to vastly improve our ability to predict, prepare for, and lessen the damage of financial crises, recessions, depressions, and other major economic events.

Spread through the public in the form of popular stories, ideas can go viral and move marketswhether it's the belief that tech stocks can only go up, that housing prices never fall, or that some firms are too big to fail. Whether true or false, stories like thesetransmitted by word of mouth, by the news media, and increasingly by social mediadrive the economy by driving our decisions about how and where to invest, how much to spend and save, and more. But despite the obvious importance of such stories, most economists have paid little attention to them. Narrative Economics sets out to change that by laying the foundation for a way of understanding how stories help propel economic events that have had led to war, mass unemployment, and increased inequality.

The stories people tellabout economic confidence or panic, housing booms, the American dream, or Bitcoinaffect economic outcomes. Narrative Economics explains how we can begin to take these stories seriously. It may be Robert Shiller's most important book to date.

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Product Details
  • Dimensions: 155 x 235mm
  • Publication Date: 01 Oct 2019
  • Publisher: Princeton University Press
  • Publication City/Country: United States
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9780691182292

About Robert J. Shiller

Robert J. Shiller is a Nobel Prizewinning economist the author of the New York Times bestseller Irrational Exuberance and the coauthor with George A. Akerlof of Phishing for Phools and Animal Spirits among other books (all Princeton). He is Sterling Professor of Economics at Yale University and a regular contributor to the New York Times. He lives in New Haven Connecticut. Twitter @RobertJShiller

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