' By emphasizing narratives, Shiller aims to mount a fundamental challenge to standard economic thinking& / #8212 / and to open up new territory for analysis. Narrative Economics was published before the novel coronavirus struck, but in a sense the pandemic is an important point in his argument& / #8217 / s favor. . . . Shiller is right to suggest that narratives can be uniquely memorable and in& / #64258 / uential, because they focus people& / #8217 / s attention and move their emotions in ways that abstractions usually do not.' ---Cass R. Sunstein, New York Review of Books