The dawn of cognitive macroeconomics

JDN 2456563 PDT 15:10.

A review of Animal Spirits by George A. Akerlof and Robert J. Shiller.

When I first came to CSULB about a month and a half ago, we had an orientation for graduate students. One of the faculty members there (Seiji Steimetz, for whom I am now a graduate assistant, and whom I have come to adore) asked us all a question: “What kind of research do you want to be involved in?” Most of the students didn’t have an answer. I had an answer I didn’t quite know how to explain, so I b...