David Leiser, Yhonatan Shemesh

How We Misunderstand Economics and Why It Matters

The Psychology of Bias, Distortion and Conspiracy

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Produktbeschreibung

Accessibly and incisive, this important and timely book explores how our 'natural' way of thinking interprets key economic issues, and shows how our thinking is often driven by ideas of conspiracy, morality and false causality.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 166
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Mai 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 154mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 315g
• ISBN-13: 9781138938939
• ISBN-10: 1138938939
• Artikelnr.: 51557059

Autorenporträt

David Leiser is Full Professor of Economic and Social Psychology at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel. He is Past President of the International Association for Research in Economic Psychology, and President of the Economic Psychology Division of the International Association of Applied Psychology. He studies lay conceptions, especially in the economic domain. Yhonatan Shemesh holds a BA and MA in cognitive science from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. His research focuses on the ways the human evolutionary cognitive endowment affects how people think and act in the modern world.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: Folk-Economic Beliefs 2. Why is Economics So Hard? 3.
Cognitive Hurdles 4. Unemployment and Inflation 5. The 'Good Begets Good'
Heuristic: The Relations Between Macro-Economic Variables 6. What is the
Economy Like? How Metaphors Shape our Understanding of Economics 7.
Ideologies: Lay Understanding of Capitalism 8. Money and Wealth 9.
Financial and Economic Literacy 10. Public Policy Consequences