Robert Schiller on Narrative Economics. Ideas as Epidemics

Guy Spier
1 min readFeb 14, 2018

Robert Schiller did not just write the book on bubbles. He’s the proponent of a fascinating theory of at least part of what drives the economy:

The narrative.

It’s something that we all understand intuitively — but Schiller puts it into words.

His paper on narrative economics is an extraordinary and worthwhile read.

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