Narrative Economics : How Stories Go Viral and Drive Major Economic Events /
From Nobel Prize-winning economist and New York Times bestselling author Robert Shiller, a groundbreaking account of how stories help drive economic events-and why financial panics can spread like epidemic virusesStories people tell-about financial confidence or panic, housing booms, or Bitcoin-can...
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Princeton, NJ :
Princeton University Press,
[2020]
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Figures
- Preface to the 2020 Paperback Edition
- Preface: What Is Narrative Economics?
- Acknowledgments
- Part I. The Beginnings of Narrative Economics
- 1. The Bitcoin Narratives
- 2. An Adventure in Consilience
- 3. Contagion, Constellations, and Confluence
- 4. Why Do Some Narratives Go Viral?
- 5. The Laffer Curve and Rubik's Cube Go Viral
- 6. Diverse Evidence on the Virality of Economic Narratives
- Part II. The Foundations of Narrative Economics
- 7. Causality and Constellations
- 8. Seven Propositions of Narrative Economics
- Part III. Perennial Economic Narratives
- 9. Recurrence and Mutation
- 10. Panic versus Confidence
- 11. Frugality versus Conspicuous Consumption
- 12. The Gold Standard versus Bimetallism
- 13. Labor- Saving Machines Replace Many Jobs
- 14. Automation and Artificial Intelligence Replace Almost All Jobs
- 15. Real Estate Booms and Busts
- 16. Stock Market Bubbles
- 17. Boycotts, Profiteers, and Evil Business
- 18. The Wage- Price Spiral and Evil Labor Unions
- Part IV. Advancing Narrative Economics
- 19. Future Narratives, Future Research
- Appendix: Applying Epidemic Models to Economic Narratives
- Notes
- References
- Index