Phishing for Phools: The Economics of Manipulation and Deception

By M. Thornton. 2016

262 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Sociology and Political Science

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1. Veroniek Collewaert
2. George A. Akerlof
3. Philip Oreopoulos

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• Equity crowdfunding, shareholder structures, and firm performance (2018, background): “Crowd investor protection against adverse selection issues will be important to ensure the sustainability of the equity crowdfunding market (e.g., Akerlof & Shiller, 2015).”
• Sins of Omission and the Practice of Economics (2020, background): “The role of stories in economics has been stressed by Shiller (2000) for some time; his American Economic Association Presidential address on “Narrative Economics” (Shiller (2016)) provides many further examples.”
• How Gullible are We? A Review of the Evidence from Psychology and Social Science (2017, unknown): “…& McCann, 2006), in sociology textbooks (see Schweingruber & Wohlstein, 2005), in books by psychologists (Gilbert, 2006; Kahneman, 2011), philosophers (Brennan, 2012; Stanley, 2015), economists (Akerlof & Shiller, 2015; Chang, 2014), and other scholars (e.g., Dawkins, 2009; Herman & Chomsky, 2008).”
• Narrative Economics (2019, unknown): “This address extends some earlier work I have done with George Akerlof (Akerlof and Shiller 2009, 2015) and some of my own earlier work going back decades (Shiller 1984), but develops the analysis and captures a much broader relevant literature.”
• The State of Economics, the State of the World (2016, unknown): “What is also needed is an effort to marry these findings more effectively with the concept of equilibrium (Akerlof and Shiller 2015) so that we can leverage them to get much more out of them and also to be able to predict better how these findings are likely to change from one society to ano”