货币幻觉 – The Money Illusion by Scott Sumner

觉得生活成本越来越高，工资涨了还是不够用？这说明你出现了货币幻觉。货币幻觉是人的一种心理错觉，即决策时只看到货币的名义价值，而忽视了实际购买力的变化。

费雪列举了大量存在货币幻觉的生动例子，并认为这种错觉源于货币单位的不稳定——即货币购买力的波动。他继而分析波动的原因和对不同行业不同阶层的危害，分别站在个人、银行和政府的角度提出补救办法。比如用指数衡量货币购买力，并根据指数调整工资等；或直接用指数创造商品本位，取代当时的金本位。

本书能加深人们对货币的认识，更重要的是，能帮助个人在生活、投资决策时少受货币幻觉的影响。

Is it possible that the consensus around what caused the 2008 Great Recession is almost entirely wrong? It’s happened before. Just as Milton Friedman and Anna Schwartz led the economics community in the 1960s to reevaluate its view of what caused the Great Depression, the same may be happening now to our understanding of the first economic crisis of this century.

Foregoing the usual relitigating of the problems of housing markets and banking crises, renowned monetary economist Scott Sumner argues that the Great Recession came down to one thing: nominal GDP, the sum of all nominal spending in the economy, which the Federal Reserve erred in allowing to plummet. The Money Illusion is an end-to-end case for this school of thought, known as market monetarism, written by its leading voice in economics. Based almost entirely on standard macroeconomic concepts, this highly accessible audiobook lays a groundwork for a simple yet fundamentally radical understanding of how monetary policy can work best: providing a stable environment for a market economy to flourish.

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