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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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Autor principal: Shiller, Robert J. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2020]
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  • 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