Phishing for Phools : The Economics of Manipulation and Deception /
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...
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press,
[2015]
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- INTRODUCTION. Expect to Be Manipulated: Phishing Equilibrium
- PART ONE. Unpaid Bills and Financial Crash
- CHAPTER ONE. Temptation Strews Our Path
- CHAPTER TWO. Reputation Mining and Financial Crisis
- PART TWO. Phishing in Many Contexts
- CHAPTER THREE. Advertisers Discover How to Zoom In on Our Weak Spots
- CHAPTER FOUR .Rip-offs Regarding Cars, Houses, and Credit Cards
- CHAPTER FIVE. Phishing in Politics
- CHAPTER SIX. Phood, Pharma, and Phishing
- CHAPTER SEVEN. Innovation: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
- CHAPTER EIGHT. Tobacco and Alcohol
- CHAPTER NINE. Bankruptcy for Profit
- CHAPTER TEN. Michael Milken Phishes with Junk Bonds as Bait
- CHAPTER ELEVEN. The Resistance and Its Heroes
- PART THREE. Conclusion and Afterword
- CONCLUSION: EXAMPLES AND GENERAL LESSONS. New Story in America and Its Consequences
- AFTERWORD. The Significance of Phishing Equilibrium
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.