Narrative EconomicsStories people tellabout financial confidence or panic, housing booms, or Bitcoincan go viral and powerfully affect economies, but such narratives have traditionally been ignored in economics and finance because they seem anecdotal and unscientific. In this groundbreaking book, Robert Shiller explains why we ignore these stories at our periland how we can begin to take them seriously. Using a rich array of examples and data, Shiller argues that