George A. Akerlof is University Professor at Georgetown University and the winner of the 2001 Nobel Prize.
Robert J. Shiller is Sterling Professor of Economics at Yale University, the winner of the 2013 Nobel Prize, and the author of the New York Times bestseller Irrational Exuberance (Princeton). Akerlof and Shiller are also the authors of Animal Spirits: How Human Psychology Drives the Economy, and Why It Matters for Global Capitalism (Princeton).
发表于2025-01-22
Phishing for Phools 2025 pdf epub mobi 电子书
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评分 评分世界上再也找不到一个国家,像美国那样强烈地质疑形式主义,尤其是在司法和经济领域。 这得归因于他们引以为傲的"实用主义哲学(Pragmatism)":对于问题的思考注重事实、讲求实际效果,排斥抽象的讨论和先验式命题,重视问题能否具体妥当解决,而不强求形而上学的统一解决。 在...
评分先从书的大概内容说起。凯恩斯在1930年展望未来时,推测人类在100年后,2030年的生活是怎样的。其中有一点他预测的非常准确:100年后的生活标准会比当时多出8倍之多。在2030年,美国的人均收入确实比当时高出了5.6倍,照这么推算,凯恩斯至少对于发达国家的预测非常接近实...
评分世界上再也找不到一个国家,像美国那样强烈地质疑形式主义,尤其是在司法和经济领域。 这得归因于他们引以为傲的"实用主义哲学(Pragmatism)":对于问题的思考注重事实、讲求实际效果,排斥抽象的讨论和先验式命题,重视问题能否具体妥当解决,而不强求形而上学的统一解决。 在...
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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 markets harm as well as help us. As long as there is profit to be made, sellers will systematically exploit our psychological weaknesses and our ignorance through manipulation and deception. Rather than being essentially benign and always creating the greater good, markets are inherently filled with tricks and traps and will “phish” us as “phools.”
Phishing for Phools therefore strikes a radically new direction in economics, based on the intuitive idea that markets both give and take away. Akerlof and Shiller bring this idea to life through dozens of stories that show how phishing affects everyone, in almost every walk of life. We spend our money up to the limit, and then worry about how to pay the next month’s bills. The financial system soars, then crashes. We are attracted, more than we know, by advertising. Our political system is distorted by money. We pay too much for gym memberships, cars, houses, and credit cards. Drug companies ingeniously market pharmaceuticals that do us little good, and sometimes are downright dangerous.
Phishing for Phools explores the central role of manipulation and deception in fascinating detail in each of these areas and many more. It thereby explains a paradox: why, at a time when we are better off than ever before in history, all too many of us are leading lives of quiet desperation. At the same time, the book tells stories of individuals who have stood against economic trickery—and how it can be reduced through greater knowledge, reform, and regulation.
"free-market system exploits our weaknesses automatically. markets do not just produce what we really want; they also produce what we want according to our monkey-on-the-shoulder tastes.”
评分"free-market system exploits our weaknesses automatically. markets do not just produce what we really want; they also produce what we want according to our monkey-on-the-shoulder tastes.”
评分★★★☆写得很浅显啊,那些例子很有意思,尤其是金融方面的,fun reading
评分实在很短,似乎尚未成熟。买这本书也是愿者上钩。
评分Akerlof和Shiller生动地用本书展示了钓愚:那么浅显的东西逼逼几百页。甚至连心理学和行为经济都是浅浅涉及。伤心
Phishing for Phools 2025 pdf epub mobi 电子书