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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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Akerlof, George A., 1940- (Autor), Shiller, Robert J. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2015]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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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.