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发表于2024-07-13
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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.
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).
这部新书的中译本应该叫啥名字呢?感觉封面和《动物精神》有点像啊
评分写个杂志文章可能也不过如此……
评分Nothing special.
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
评分读懂这本书需要很多对美国经济和社会的context,大致是写给白人精英读的。应该说是不错,但我一直认为像Akerlof和Shiller这样的诺奖得主有能力可以把复杂问题写得更简单一些,让普通人也能读懂。要不索性就写得更深刻一些,给真正的thinker来读。Phishing for Phools的道理,结果读了看懂了的多半是phishers,phools是不读这种书的。
《钓愚》这本书的作者之一是《非理性繁荣》的作者罗伯特希勒,另一位便是获得2001年诺贝尔经济学奖获得者乔治阿克洛夫。 首先说一下这本书的整体质量。本书的翻译者张军是复旦大学经济学院的院长兼中国经济研究中心主任,他认为这是他看过“最有意思的一本经济学大众读物”。其...
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《钓愚》这本书的作者之一是《非理性繁荣》的作者罗伯特希勒,另一位便是获得2001年诺贝尔经济学奖获得者乔治阿克洛夫。 首先说一下这本书的整体质量。本书的翻译者张军是复旦大学经济学院的院长兼中国经济研究中心主任,他认为这是他看过“最有意思的一本经济学大众读物”。其...
评分这是一本科普类的书籍,文中没有长篇大论,没有晦涩难懂的数学公式,但是从未见过一本科普类的书籍写的如此严谨,单单注释的厚度就占了1/10。 书籍采用叙事类的描述方式,一个又一个的小故事将生活中鲜活的例子呈现在你的眼前,人物形象跃然纸上。 人是非理性的,而商家正是利...
Phishing for Phools pdf epub mobi txt 电子书 下载 2024