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No two economic crises are identical. But the same questions recur. How did we get into this mess? How can we get out of it? How
No two economic crises are identical. But the same questions recur. How did we get into this mess? How can we get out of it? How
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2015-02-12
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No two economic crises are identical. But the same questions recur. How did we get into this mess? How can we get out of it? How do we avoid another? Some answers repeat themselves too. You can be pretty sure that sooner or later someone, quite possibly an anguished economist, will declare that economics itself has gone
astray
. The wisdom of some past master, whether celebrated or neglected, has been forgotten, and the economy is paying the price.
A new book, "Animal Spirits" follows this rule to the letter. The authors seek to answer the first of those three old questions and thus to provide some pointers about the other two. They do indeed believe that economics has lost its way. And their chosen economist is Keynes.
So far, so familiar. But this book is rather more than the usual lament about the failings of economics. Its authors are two of the discipline’s leading lights. Mr. Akerlof won a Nobel prize in 2001, in part for a classic paper explaining how markets may fail. Mr. Shiller sounded a warning about the "Irrational Exuberance" of the tech-boom stockmarket in a book of that name—and did the same for the housing market in a second edition.
The lesson that Messrs Akerlof and Shiller draw from Keynes is not just the standard one, of the usefulness of deficit finance in recessions. They borrow their title from "The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money".
Most, probably, of our decisions to do something positive, the full consequences of which will be drawn out over many days to come, can only be taken as a result of animal spirits—of a spontaneous urge to action rather than inaction, and not as the outcome of the weighted average of quantitative benefits multiplied by quantitative probabilities.
Too much economics, say Mr. Akerlof and Mr. Shiller, has been built on the premise that humans are rational calculators. That is not a new criticism, even from economists. Over the past couple of decades Homo economicus has evolved into a being more like H. sapiens, as economics has drawn on psychology, biology and even neuroscience. "Behavioural" economics has shaped public policy—for instance, in encouraging people to save or in shaping the choice of investments in their pension pots. Behavioural economists have earned Nobel prizes. Mr. Akerlof and Mr. Shiller, however, complain that this evolution has been confined mainly to microeconomics. It is time for macroeconomics to catch up.
We can infer from the passage that the book "Animal Spirits"______.
选项
A、answers all the three questions about economic crisis
B、is written by a leading expert of economics
C、studies the forgotten work of economist Keynes
D、has been celebrated in the discipline
答案
C
解析
属信息推断题。选项A犯了曲解文意的错误,第二段第二句讲到这本书只回答了这三道题中的第一道,故错误。选项B犯了同样错误,这本书的作者有两位,都是经济学界知名人士,故选错误。选项D犯了移花接木的错误,celebrated这个词出现在第一段最后,指的是以前的经济学大师的观点,而并非这本书,故错误。第二段第一句指出这本书遵循上文提到的规则,即分析了以前经济学家的观点,故选项C符合题意。
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