Narrative Economics
How Stories Go Viral and Drive Major Economic Events
$47.01
- Paperback
408 pages
- Release Date
8 November 2020
Summary
Stories people tell — about financial confidence or panic, housing booms, or Bitcoin — can go viral and powerfully affect economies, but such narratives have traditionally been ignored in economics and finance because they seem anecdotal and unscientific. In this groundbreaking book, Robert Shiller explains why we ignore these stories at our peril — and how we can begin to take them seriously.
Using a rich array of examples and data, Shiller argues that studying popular stories that i…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780691210261 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0691210268 |
| Author: | Robert J. Shiller |
| Publisher: | Princeton University Press |
| Imprint: | Princeton University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 408 |
| Release Date: | 8 November 2020 |
| Weight: | 390g |
| Dimensions: | 35mm x 136mm x 203mm |
Critics Review
“Shiller’s thesis subsequently offers a predicative power that many contemporaneous studies lack… . [and] is timely because it exposes earlier studies on contagious phenomena.”—Tony D. Sampson, American Literary History
Robert J. Shiller
Robert J. Shiller is a Nobel Prize–winning economist and the author of the New York Times bestseller Irrational Exuberance (Princeton), among many other books. He is Sterling Professor of Economics at Yale University and a regular contributor to the New York Times.
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