{"id":17686,"date":"2016-03-29T07:00:01","date_gmt":"2016-03-29T12:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/?p=17686"},"modified":"2016-03-23T11:47:31","modified_gmt":"2016-03-23T16:47:31","slug":"new-stuff-tuesday-march-29-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/archives\/17686","title":{"rendered":"New Stuff Tuesday &#8211; March 29, 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.uww.edu\/images\/library\/blog\/phishing.jpg\" alt=\"Phishing for Phools Book Cover\" height=\"250\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Phishing for Phools<\/strong> <br \/>\nThe Economics of Manipulation and Deception<br \/>\nby George A. Akerlof and Robert J. Shiller<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" title=\"call number\" href=\"http:\/\/uwi-primoalma-prod.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com\/WW:WW_VOY:UWI71378532810002121\" target=\"_blank\">HB74.P8 A49443 2015<\/a><br \/>\n<strong>New Arrivals<\/strong>, 2nd floor<\/p>\n<p>While the benefits of a free market are widely touted in the United States, Nobel Prize winners <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nobelprize.org\/nobel_prizes\/economic-sciences\/laureates\/2001\/akerlof-facts.html\" target=\"_blank\">George A. Akerlof<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nobelprize.org\/nobel_prizes\/economic-sciences\/laureates\/2013\/shiller-facts.html\" target=\"_blank\">Robert J. Shiller<\/a> argue that such markets have a seedier side. Individuals and businesses aim to make the highest profit possible, and they may do whatever it takes to achieve that, including exploitation and deception. This book explores the intersection of psychology and economics, using case studies to show how markets can be manipulated. The case studies discuss advertising, politics, big pharma, and more. If economic theory tickles your fancy, I highly recommend this read.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a short video about the book from one of the authors:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WuZRzSyXqt0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Phishing for Phools The Economics of Manipulation and Deception by George A. Akerlof and Robert J. Shiller HB74.P8 A49443 2015 New Arrivals, 2nd floor While the benefits of a free market are widely touted in the United States, Nobel Prize &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/archives\/17686\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5259,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[198,110694,185],"class_list":["post-17686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-stuff-tuesdays","tag-economics","tag-free-market","tag-new-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5259"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17686"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17691,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17686\/revisions\/17691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}