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Phishing for Phools

by George A. Akerlof and Robert J. Shiller

  • FINISHED
  • Finished October 2018
  • First published 2015

behavioural economics psychology economics

Argues that free markets create incentives to exploit human weakness and mistakes.   Examples include advertising, credit cards, pharmaceuticals and financial crises.