TY  - BOOK
AU  - Akerlof,George A.
AU  - Shiller,Robert J..
TI  - Phishing for phools: the economics of manipulation and deception 
SN  - 9780691173023 (pbk.) :
AV  - HB74.P8 
U1  - 330.019 AKE 23
PY  - 2016///
CY  - Princeton
PB  - Princeton University Press
KW  - Economics
KW  - Psychological aspects
KW  - Free enterprise
KW  - eflch
KW  - ukslc
N1  - Originally published: 2015; Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - 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 this book, 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 systematically exploit our psychological weaknesses and our ignorance through manipulation and deception. Rather than being essentially benign and always creating the greater good, markets are inherently filled with tricks and traps and will 'phish' us as 'phools'
ER  -