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the economics of manipulation and deception

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An edition of Phishing for phools (2015)

Phishing for phools

the economics of manipulation and deception

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Akerlof and Shiller argue that markets harm as well as help us. As long as there is profit to be made, sellers will systematically exploit our psychological weaknesses and our ignorance through manipulation and deception. Based on the intuitive idea that markets both give and take away, they show how phishing affects everyone, in almost every walk of life. We spend our money up to the limit, and then worry about how to pay the next month's bills. The financial system soars, then crashes. In doing so they explain a paradox: why, at a time when we are better off than ever before in history, all too many of us are leading lives of quiet desperation.

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272

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Economics, Free enterprise, Psychological aspects, Economics, psychological aspects, Markt, Marktwirtschaft, Marktmechanismus, Verhalten, Verhaltensökonomie, Täuschung, Manipulation

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Table of Contents

Introduction. Expect to be manipulated: phishing equilibrium
Part one: Unpaid bills and financial crash
1. Temptation strews our path
2. Reputation mining and financial crisis
Part two: Phishing in many contexts
3. Advertisers discover how to zoom in on our weak spots
4. Rip-offs regarding cars, houses, and credit cards
5. Phishing in politics
6. Phood, pharma, and phishing
7. Innovation: the good, the bad, and the ugly
8. Tobacco and alcohol
9. Bankruptcy for profit
10. Michael Milken phishes with junk bonds as bait
11. The resistance and its heroes
Part three: Conclusion and afterword
Conclusion: examples and general lessons. New story in America and its consequences
Afterword. The significance of phishing equilibrium.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-256) and index.

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Dewey Decimal Class
330.01/9
Library of Congress
HB74.P8 A49443 2015, HB74.P8A49443 2015

The Physical Object

Pagination
xvi, 272 pages
Number of pages
272

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Open Library
OL27193234M
Internet Archive
phishingforphool0000aker
ISBN 10
0691168318
ISBN 13
9780691168319
LCCN
2015017179
OCLC/WorldCat
908084013

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marc_openlibraries_sanfranciscopubliclibrary MARC record
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Library of Congress MARC record
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