Phishing for Phools: The Economics of Manipulation and Deception

Title: Phishing for Phools: The Economics of Manipulation and Deception Author: George A Akerlof ISBN: 9780691168319 Publisher: Princeton University Press Published: 2015 Binding: Hardcover Language: English Condition: Used: Near Fine Excellent, unmarked copy with little wear and tight binding. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders. A 1659243 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 us. As long as there is profit to be made, sellers will systematica