Phishing for Phools <subTitle>The Economics of Manipulation and Deception</subTitle> </titleInfo> <titleInfo> <title/> </titleInfo> <name type="personal"> <namePart>Akerlof, George A.</namePart> <role> <roleTerm authority="marcrelator" type="text">creator</roleTerm> </role> </name> <name type="personal"> <namePart/> <namePart type="date">1940-</namePart> <role> <roleTerm authority="marcrelator" type="text">creator</roleTerm> </role> </name> <name type="personal"> <namePart/> <role> <roleTerm authority="marcrelator" type="text">creator</roleTerm> </role> <role> <roleTerm type="text">Author</roleTerm> </role> </name> <name type="corporate"> <namePart>George A. Akerlof, Robert J. Shiller</namePart> <role> <roleTerm authority="marcrelator" type="text">creator</roleTerm> </role> </name> <typeOfResource>text</typeOfResource> <originInfo> <place> <placeTerm type="code" authority="marccountry">4:1</placeTerm> </place> <place> <placeTerm type="text">U.S.A</placeTerm> </place> <publisher>Princeton University Press</publisher> <dateIssued>2015</dateIssued> <issuance>monographic</issuance> </originInfo> <language> <languageTerm authority="iso639-2b" type="code">eng</languageTerm> </language> <physicalDescription> <extent>272tr.</extent> <extent>paperback, illustration</extent> <extent>20 cm</extent> </physicalDescription> <abstract>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.</abstract> <note type="statement of responsibility">George A. Akerlof, Robert J. Shiller</note> <subject> <topic>Psychology</topic> </subject> <classification authority="ddc">330.01</classification> <classification authority="ddc">A314-G35</classification> <identifier type="isbn">9780691173023</identifier> <identifier type="uri">https://data.thuviencodoc.org/books/15650/248.jpg</identifier> <location> <url displayLabel="Cover Image">https://data.thuviencodoc.org/books/15650/248.jpg</url> </location> <recordInfo> <recordCreationDate encoding="marc">2024-1</recordCreationDate> <recordChangeDate encoding="iso8601">20260119071514.0</recordChangeDate> </recordInfo> </mods>