George Akerlof and Robert Shiller’s (Nobels in economics) book, titled Phishing for Phools: The Economics of Manipulation and Deception declares on its first page that people “do not.

Nobel laureates Robert J. Shiller and George Akerlof discuss their new book “Phishing for Phools.” They explain how free market forces lead some people to manipulate and deceive others and why ...

In Phishing for Phools, a 2015 book that George Akerlof co-authored with Robert Shiller, the authors wrote without even a hint of irony that people “do not do what is really good for them, they ...

Professor of economics George Akerlof, the winner of the 2001 Nobel Prize in economics, emphasized the dangers of free markets for consumers and the importance of deregulation in the 2008 financial ...

Nobel Prize winner and economics scholar George Akerlof will join the faculty of the McCourt School of Public Policy in November, the university announced Sept. 23. Akerlof, who currently serves as a ...

In their new book, ‘Phishing for Phools: The Economics of Manipulation and Deception,’ George A. Akerlof and Robert J. Shiller say that markets, in addition to giving us what we really want ...

George Akerlof: [laughs] No, we've always been worried about the type of crisis that was going to occur. And we wanted to get it out before the crisis. And so actually this is late.

By William K. Black If you have studied economics at the university level in the last 35 years it is likely you were introduced to the concept of “asymmetrical information” and George Akerlof ...

Phishing for Phools: The Economics of Manipulation & Deception by George A. Akerlof and Robert J. Shiller, Princeton University Press, 2015. The End of Banking: Money Credit and the Digital ...

Noble-prize winning economist George Akerlof, who is married to Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen, is joining the faculty of Georgetown University’s McCourt School of Public Policy in November.

Yellen, 77, and her husband, economist George Akerlof, stopped by a Giant Food store in Washington, DC, after grabbing lunch at Japanese restaurant Raku. 10.