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发表于2025-05-07
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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).
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。
评分How people using cues and informational asymmetry to create a zero/negative-sum game. Reading this book and his open-course helps you to know where Shiller stands in a spectrum of economists. Left of Milton Friedman but not very left. He is a believer of the system, and thinks it needs a few patches/ upgrades. Not very information.
评分看了,看完了,忘了,忘光了。
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
评分"the stories people are telling themselves"
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...
评分 评分 评分 评分1.在自由市场中,只要人性有弱点,市场就会利用这些弱点。人们往往并不清楚自己真正需要什么,而这就是最大的弱点,这个弱点会被商家抓住,并加以充分利用。 2. 汽车销售中的手段 第一,客户心目中的理想车型大都是根据商业广告宣传所确定的,四轮驱动、倒车影像之类,那么推销...
Phishing for Phools pdf epub mobi txt 电子书 下载 2025