Author: Amy Orr-Ewing
Publisher: IVP Books
Keywords: irrational, god, believing
Number of Pages: 141
Published: 2008-10
List price: $13.00
ISBN-10: 0830833536
ISBN-13: 9780830833535

Is God really real? And how can we know if anyone’s experience of God is actually valid? Skeptics today are increasingly vocal in their assertion not only that God is unverifiable, but also that believing in God is irrational and even dangerous. Even those who believe wonder if they can speak objectively about the actual reality of God or if they can only appeal to a subjective belief in God. Amy Orr-Ewing addresses key questions and objections that many people today have about God. She explores whether our understanding of God is delusional or merely a psychological crutch. She pr

Author: Robert J. Shiller
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Keywords: exuberance, irrational
Number of Pages: 312
Published: 2000-03-15
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 0691050627
ISBN-13: 9780691050621

In this bold and potentially urgent volume, Robert J. Shiller, a respected expert on market volatility, offers an unconventional interpretation of recent U.S. stock market highs and shows that Alan Greenspan’s term "irrational exuberance" is a good description of the mood behind the market. He warns that poorer performance may be in the offing and tells us how we--as a country and individually--can respond.Shiller credits an unprecedented confluence of events with driving stocks to uncharted heights. He analyzes the structural and psychological factors that explain why the Dow Jones Indu

Author: Robert J. Shiller
Publisher: Broadway Business
Keywords: exuberance, irrational
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2006-05-09
List price: $16.00
ISBN-10: 0767923634
ISBN-13: 9780767923637

As Robert Shiller’s new 2009 preface to his prescient classic on behavioral economics and market volatility asserts, the irrational exuberance of the stock and housing markets “has been ended by an economic crisis of a magnitude not seen since the Great Depression of the 1930s.” As we all, ordinary Americans and professional investors alike, crawl from the wreckage of our heedless bubble economy, the shrewd insights and sober warnings, and hard facts that Shiller marshals in this book are more invaluable than ever. The original and bestselling 2000 edition of Irrational Exuberance evoked

Author: George Bernard Shaw
Publisher: 1st World Library - Literary Society
Keywords: knot, irrational
Number of Pages: 424
Published: 2007-04-15
List price: $18.95
ISBN-10: 142183958X
ISBN-13: 9781421839585

This novel was written in the year 1880, only a few years after I had exported myself from Dublin to London in a condition of extreme rawness and inexperience concerning the speci-fically English side of the life with which the book pretends to deal. Ever

Author: Robert J. Shiller
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Keywords: second, exuberance, irrational
Number of Pages: 344
Published: 2005-02-22
List price: $37.50
ISBN-10: 0691123357
ISBN-13: 9780691123356

This first edition of this book was a broad study, drawing on a wide range of published research and historical evidence, of the enormous stock market boom that started around 1982 and picked up incredible speed after 1995. Although it took as its specific starting point this ongoing boom, it placed it in the context of stock market booms generally, and it also made concrete suggestions regarding policy changes that should be initiated in response to this and other such booms. The book argued that the boom represents a speculative bubble, not grounded in sensible economic fundamentals. Part on

Author: Ori Brafman
Publisher: HighBridge Company
Keywords: behavior, irrational, irresistible, sway
Published: 2008-06-17
List price: $26.95
ISBN-10: 1598876295
ISBN-13: 9781598876291

Like the bestsellers Blink and Freakonomics, this lively narrative is a fresh view of the world, explaining the previously inexplicable and revealing hidden influences on human decision-making. A Harvard Business School student pays over $200 for a $20 bill. Washington, DC, commuters ignore a free subway concert by a violin prodigy. A veteran airline pilot attempts to take off without control tower clearance and collides with another plane on the runway. Why do we do the wildly irrational things we sometimes do? Drawing on cutting-edge research from the fields of social psychology, behavioral

Author: William Barrett
Publisher: Anchor Books/Doubleday
Keywords: philosophy, existential, study, man, irrational
Number of Pages: 314
Published: 1990-01-01
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 0385031386
ISBN-13: 9780385031387

Widely recognized as the finest definition of existentialist Philosophy, this book introduced existentialism to America in 1958. Barrett discusses the views of 19th and 20th century existentialists Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Sartre and interprets the impact of their thinking on literature, art, and philosophy.