Narrative Economics : : How Stories Go Viral and Drive Major Economic Events / / Robert J. Shiller.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Business and Economics 2020 English
• VerfasserIn: Shiller, Robert J.,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2020]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (408 p.) :; 18 b/w illus.

From Nobel Prize-winning economist and New York Times bestselling author Robert Shiller, a groundbreaking account of how stories help drive economic events-and why financial panics can spread like epidemic virusesStories people tell-about financial confidence or panic, housing booms, or Bitcoin-can...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Figures
• Preface to the 2020 Paperback Edition
• Preface: What Is Narrative Economics?
• Acknowledgments
• Part I. The Beginnings of Narrative Economics
• 1. The Bitcoin Narratives
• 2. An Adventure in Consilience
• 3. Contagion, Constellations, and Confluence
• 4. Why Do Some Narratives Go Viral?
• 5. The Laffer Curve and Rubik's Cube Go Viral
• 6. Diverse Evidence on the Virality of Economic Narratives
• Part II. The Foundations of Narrative Economics
• 7. Causality and Constellations
• 8. Seven Propositions of Narrative Economics
• Part III. Perennial Economic Narratives
• 9. Recurrence and Mutation
• 10. Panic versus Confidence
• 11. Frugality versus Conspicuous Consumption
• 12. The Gold Standard versus Bimetallism
• 13. Labor- Saving Machines Replace Many Jobs
• 14. Automation and Artificial Intelligence Replace Almost All Jobs
• 15. Real Estate Booms and Busts
• 16. Stock Market Bubbles
• 17. Boycotts, Profiteers, and Evil Business
• 18. The Wage- Price Spiral and Evil Labor Unions
• Part IV. Advancing Narrative Economics
• 19. Future Narratives, Future Research
• Appendix: Applying Epidemic Models to Economic Narratives
• Notes
• References
• Index