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1	Animal Spirits: How Human Psychology Drives the Economy and Why It Matters for Global Capitalism more books like this by George A Akerlof, Robert J Schilling add to wishlist 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 ... see all copies from $13.97! new only from $16.95! \| SVS
2	Efficiency Wage Models of the Labor Market more books like this by George A Akerlof add to wishlist One of the more troubling aspects of the ferment in macroeconomics that followed the demise of the Keynesian dominance in the late 1960s has been the inability of many of the new ideas to account for unemployment remains unexplained because equilibrium in most economic models occurs with supply equal to demand: if this equality holds in the labor ... see all copies from $8.31! new only from $36.22! \| SVS
3	Explorations in Pragmatic Economics more books like this by George A Akerlof add to wishlist For twenty years since the publication of his seminal paper 'The Market for "Lemons"', George A. Akerlof's work has changed the way we see economics, and the economics of information in particular. In abandoning the perfect-competition benchmarks of classical economics, the pragmatic modern economics championed by Akerlof has provided deep ... see all copies from $34.00! new only from $34.00! \| SVS
4	An Economic Theorist's Book of Tales more books like this by George A Akerlof add to wishlist These essays explore what happens when a skilful economist makes unconventional assumptions. Economic theory has traditionally relied upon a tacit and 'classical' set of assumptions that have gradually acquired a life of their own in defining how economists write and how they justify economic models. Similarly, these assumptions have acquired an ... see all copies from $26.75! new only from $36.63! \| SVS
5	An Economic Theorist's Book of Tales: Essays That Entertain the Consequences of New Assumptions in Economic Theory more books like this by George A Akerlof add to wishlist These essays explore what happens when a skilful economist makes unconventional assumptions. Economic theory has traditionally relied upon a tacit and 'classical' set of assumptions that have gradually acquired a life of their own in defining how economists write and how they justify economic models. Similarly, these assumptions have acquired an ... see all copies from $35.63! first editions

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