Narrative Economics

How Stories Go Viral and Drive Major Economic Events

Robert J. Shiller

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Princeton University Pres
09 November 2020

Psychology; Social, group or collective psychology; Economics & Business; Economics; Macroeconomics; Behavioural economics

Stories people tell - about financial confidence or panic, housing booms, or Bitcoin - can go viral and powerfully affect economies, but such narratives have traditionally been ignored in economics and finance because they seem anecdotal and unscientific. In this groundbreaking book, Robert Shiller explains why we ignore these stories at our peril - and how we can begin to take them seriously.

Using a rich array of examples and data, Shiller argues that studying popular stories that influence individual and collective economic behaviour - what he calls 'narrative economics' - may vastly improve our ability to predict, prepare for, and lessen the damage of financial crises and other major economic events. The result is nothing less than a new way to think about the economy, economic change, and economics.

In a new preface, Shiller reflects on some of the challenges facing narrative economics, discusses the connection between disease epidemics and economic epidemics, and suggests why epidemiology may hold lessons for fighting economic contagions.

'Shiller's thorough discussion and many examples are certainly convincing as to the importance of narratives in individual economic decision-making and aggregate economic phenomena.' - Sonia Jaffe, Science

'An eloquent and accessible exposition of a seductive idea.' - Tim Jackson, Nature

'Excellent.' - Gillian Tett, Financial Times

'A magisterial account.' - Steve Denning, Forbes

'A wonderfully enjoyable ride...

Shiller's book is filled with bite-size nuggets...that are easily digested and provide illuminating parallels between the virality of diseases and fads and bubbles in asset prices.' - Mihir Desai, Times Higher Education

By: Robert J. Shiller
Imprint: Princeton University Pres
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 203mm, Width: 133mm,
ISBN: 9780691210261
ISBN 10: 0691210268
Pages: 408
Publication Date: 09 November 2020
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Robert J. Shiller is a Nobel Prize-winning economist and the author of the New York Times bestseller Irrational Exuberance (Princeton), among many other books. He is Sterling Professor of Economics at Yale University and a regular contributor to the New York Times. Twitter @RobertJShiller

Reviews for Narrative Economics: How Stories Go Viral and Drive Major Economic Events

""Shiller’s thesis subsequently offers a predicative power that many contemporaneous studies lack. . . . [and] is timely because it exposes earlier studies on contagious phenomena.""---Tony D. Sampson, American Literary History