Phishing for Phools | Robert J. Shiller | Talks at Google
Nobel Prize winner Robert J. Shiller visited Google's office in Cambridge, MA to discuss the book he co-authored with George Akerlof, "Phishing for Phools: The Economics of Manipulation and Deception".
"Phishing for Phools" explores the central role of manipulation and deception in detail in many areas of our lives, explaining a paradox: why, at a time when we are better off than ever before, too many of people are leading lives of quiet desperation. At the same time, the book tells stories of individuals who have stood against economic trickery-and how it can be reduced through greater knowledge, reform, and regulation.
Robert J. Shiller is Sterling Professor of Economics at Yale University, the winner of the 2013 Nobel Prize, and the author of the New York Times bestseller "Irrational Exuberance". Shiller and fellow Nobel winner George Akerlof are also the authors of "Animal Spirits: How Human Psychology Drives the Economy, and Why It Matters for Global Capitalism".
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Love this guy. So smart and an independent thinker. People critique his style because he actually takes on the struggle to think for himself. 👍🙏👍🙏👍🙏
42:31 thank you for highlighting this otherwise overlooked angle
Wait for it and wait some more!
4:43 hahaha NOW BING IS LAUGHING lol x) Also really nice talk thanks google to invite and share such great content!
Fantastic
Easily the best living economist
he's more of a writer than a speaker ^^ his books deliver his ideas way better than his speeches imo
Interesting character
Min. 24:20 - I think the slot-machine phenom has a different explantion. It's still a brain bug, but it has something to do with the human learning process through trial & error. People keep trying, because that's how babies get better at walking. The reward tells us that we got better at it, so we keep trying in order to reach perfection.
a Freudian slip..? stock machines slot machines :)
I'm surprised that Robert Shiller knows little about Google when the co-founder of Google and CEO of its parent company is Larry Page, a fellow University of Michigan alumnus. Isn't Google a huge technology firm as well as a major search engine on the internet? I better read his book. lol
@Lausanne28
6 жыл бұрын
You're right, Google is a technology firm that specializes in internet-related services, but its parent company, Alphabet Inc, has other technology branches in solar car development, computerized home products, etc. Larry Page is the co-founder of Google with Sergei Brinn, and Page was previously the CEO of Google. He's now the CEO of Alphabet, Inc., the parent company. Yes, both Robert Shiller & Larry Page were undergraduate students at the University of Michigan and earned their PhD degrees at MIT and Stanford, respectively.
I like the message/topic but this speaker rambles, the first 20 minutes can be skipped.
@TheWhitehiker
4 жыл бұрын
Nobel Prize for this chap? Hard to believe.
What an awful speaker. Ah...ah... emhh... ah... ehhh. Incredible amount of hollow blablabla, endless retelling stories and anekdotes. The same as his books by the way - a host of anekdots, retelling other's books. But the worst part of this is his public speaking skills. Never ever met such a bad, worthless, empty and broken apart public speech