Animal Spirits: How Human Psychology Drives the Economy, and Why It Matters for Global Capitalism

The global financial crises of recent years have made it painfully clear that psychological forces can imperil the wealth of nations. From blind faith in ever-rising housing prices to plummeting confidence in capital markets, "animal spirits" drive financial events worldwide. In this book, acclaimed economists George Akerlof and Robert Shiller present a serious alternative to the standard economic theory that has failed to account for these essential human factors, and provide a radical new...