@article{335633,
      recid = {335633},
      author = {Akerlof, George A., and Shiller, Robert J.},
      title = {Animal spirits : how human psychology drives the economy,  and why it matters for global capitalism /},
      publisher = {Princeton University Press,},
      address = {Princeton :},
      pages = {xiv, 230 p. ;},
      year = {2009},
      abstract = {Akerlof and Shiller reassert the necessity of an active  government role in economic policymaking by recovering the  idea of "animal spirits" (i.e. human psychology) and making  it work for and not against us. 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 fortune--and show how  Reaganomics, Thatcherism, and the rational expectations  revolution failed to account for them. The authors then  offer a road map for reversing the financial misfortunes  besetting us today.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/335633},
}