Animal spirits
Examines the role that certain human emotions such as confidence, fear, and bad faith play in the global economy and how the prevalent philosophies underlying free-market capitalism have failed to take these key emotions into account.
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| Format: | Audiobooks Audiobook (CD) |
| Language: | English |
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Grand Haven, Mich. :
Brilliance Audio,
p2009.
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| Edition: | Unabridged. |
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| Summary: | Examines the role that certain human emotions such as confidence, fear, and bad faith play in the global economy and how the prevalent philosophies underlying free-market capitalism have failed to take these key emotions into account. |
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| Item Description: | Title from disc surface. Compact discs. |
| Physical Description: | 8 sound discs (ca. 10 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. |
| ISBN: | 9781441816627 1441816623 |
| Author Notes: | Akerlof won the 2001 Nobel Prize in Economics (shared with Michael Spence and Joseph E. Stiglitz). and is perhaps best known for his article, "The Market for Lemons: Quality Uncertainty and the Market Mechanism", published in Quarterly Journal of Economics in 1970. Akerlof's authored book titles include: An Economic Theorist's Book of Tales (Cambridge University Press, 1984), Explorations in Pragmatic Economics (Oxford University Press, 2005), and Animal Spirits: How Human Psychology Drives the Economy, and Why It Matters for Global Capitalism (Princeton University Press, 2009). (Bowker Author Biography) |
