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Carregando... Animal Spirits: How Human Psychology Drives the Economy, and Why It Matters for Global Capitalism (2009)de George A. Akerlof, Robert J. Shiller
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There is much to criticize in modern acroeconomics. But as the NYU economist Tom Sargent tells his students, “it takes a model to beat a model”. Akerlof and Shiller’s book criticizes classical economics but does not offer a viable or coherent alternative. Instead they advocate Keynesian policies that were discredited in the 1970s; a massive expansion of liquidity and a massive fiscal expansion. History has taught us that a massive expansion of liquidity will lead to inflation.  In Animal Spirits, two Keynesian economists — George Akerlof, a Nobel-prizewinning economist at the University of California, Berkeley, and Robert Shiller, an economist at Yale University — use findings from psychology to amplify one of economist John Maynard Keynes's theories. In his signature 1936 work, The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money, Keynes explained that economies should fluctuate because people behave in unpredictable ways — under the influence of what he called "animal spirits".  the authors attempt to restore animal spirits to economic theory. They do this by drawing on the greater understanding of human psychology that exists today, and which Akerlof and Shiller, along with other economists, have incorporated into the relatively new field of behavioral economics. Though it calls for a reworking of economic theory, Animal Spirits is not a difficult book. It is short, chatty and anecdotal. The general reader will be engaged and drawn in. But the book is serious, too. Good notes and a bibliography are a guide to the literature that the book aims to tie together. Animal Spirits carries its ambition lightly – but is ambitious nonetheless. Economists will see it as a kind of manifesto. Animal Spirits is a good book to use in a senior-level, undergraduate economics course where students already have a strong background in traditional economic theory because it takes the reader beyond that level to a more realistic look at the world around us. Students would be required to extend their understanding of economics by incorporating elements of sychology and sociology. Interestingly, such a class might not help prepare the economics majors for a standard economics programme in graduate school, but it might help prepare them for jobs in government and public administration. PrêmiosNotable Lists
The global financial crisis has made it painfully clear that powerful psychological forces are imperiling the wealth of nations today. From blind faith in ever-rising housing prices to plummeting confidence in capital markets, "animal spirits" are driving financial events worldwide. In this book, acclaimed economists George Akerlof and Robert Shiller challenge the economic wisdom that got us into this mess, and put forward a bold new vision that will transform economics and restore prosperity. Akerlof and Shiller reassert the necessity of an active government role in economic policymaking by recovering the idea of animal spirits, a term John Maynard Keynes used to describe the gloom and despondence that led to the Great Depression and the changing psychology that accompanied recovery. Like Keynes, Akerlof and Shiller know that managing these animal spirits requires the steady hand of government--simply allowing markets to work won't do it. In rebuilding the case for a more robust, behaviorally informed Keynesianism, they detail the most pervasive effects of animal spirits in contemporary economic life--such as confidence, fear, bad faith, corruption, a concern for fairness, and the stories we tell ourselves about our economic fortunes--and show how Reaganomics, Thatcherism, and the rational expectations revolution failed to account for them. Animal Spirits offers a road map for reversing the financial misfortunes besetting us today. Read it and learn how leaders can channel animal spirits--the powerful forces of human psychology that are afoot in the world economy today. In a new preface, they describe why our economic troubles may linger for some time--unless we are prepared to take further, decisive action. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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'Em sua acepção original, na forma latina antiga e medieval, spiritus animalis, a palavra animal tema mesma raiz etimológica de 'animação', no sentido de força vital. Porém, na economia moderna, espírito animal adquiriu significado um tanto diferente; agora, como termo econômico, refere-se a certo elemento peculiar com a ambiguidade e com a incerteza. Denota nosso relacionamento peculiar com a ambiguidade e com a incerteza. Às vezes, somos paralisados pela dúvida. No entanto, outras vezes, somos revigorados e energizados por ela, superando nossos medos e indecisões. (