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Nobel Prize-winning economist Robert Shiller joins this week’s Prospect podcast to discuss what he calls “narrative economics”: the process of stories driving economic events. We often think our narratives – recessions, difficult jobs, bringing back jobs – come as a result of our economic realities. What if they also drove them?Robert Shiller’s Narrative Economics: How Stories Go Viral and Drive Major Economic Events is Out with Princeton University Press: https://press.princeton.edu/titles/14225.htmlPlus: Tom Clark and Sameer Rahim in today’s stagnated growth  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.