Phishing for Phools: The Economics of Manipulation and Deception

Title: Phishing for Phools: The Economics of Manipulation and Deception Author: George A Akerlof ISBN: 9780691173023 Publisher: Princeton University Press Published: 2016 Binding: Paperback Language: English Condition: Used: Very Good Clean, unmarked copy with some edge wear. Good binding. Dust jacket included if issued with one. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders. Business & Personal Finance 1557160 Publisher Description: Why the free-market system encourages so much trickery even as it creates so much good 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 u