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About the Course

Dear Potential Learner, Please take some time to read through this note before deciding to enroll. This course, Narrative Economics, is
relatively short and proposes a simple concept: we need to incorporate the contagion of narratives into our economic theory. You can think of
narratives as stories that shape public beliefs, which in turn influence our decision making. Understanding how people arrived at certain
decisions in the past can aid our understanding of the economy today and improve our forecasts of the future. Popular thinking heavily
influences our answers to questions such as how much to invest, how much to spend or save, whether to go to college or tak...
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Top reviews

AV

Jun 6, 2023

A very insightful and approachable course about the effects of human biases over the economic landscape and how social trends tend to leave a permanent mark on history and exact sciences like finance.

LA

Mar 10, 2024

I really enjoyed this course, it opened my eyes so much and I might keep going even though I only took this course out of fun, I was very interested in this topic. lucky me it Was interesting! Thanks

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By Isaac H

May 8, 2023

Excellent course!

By Krishan P

Oct 6, 2024

New perspective

By Bhuwanesh J

May 29, 2024

Thanks Coursera

By shihyang y

Mar 7, 2024

it is very good

By Iván A

May 2, 2023

Great course

By Antonio R

Jan 21, 2025

Excelente.

By Saverio I

Jul 20, 2023

Excellent!

By Andres V

May 25, 2023

Incredible

By BABA K U

Feb 21, 2024

thank you

By Marcelo S

Jul 14, 2023

Great!!!

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Dec 8, 2024

Great!!

By Sydni O

Aug 14, 2023

amazing

By Faisal D

Jul 29, 2024

Great!

By Eb S

Jun 30, 2024

Superb

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Jul 27, 2024

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By Richard D

Jun 14, 2023

An interesting course, but in a sense it tells us an obvious thing, that how people understand the economic world affects their economic decisions (spending, saving, investing, founding, ...), and they in turn affect the economic conditions that constrain or enable those decision. The course also gives a useful technique involving Google to help research particular narratives.

I think the subject of narrative economics faces a huge problem. Narratives carry values, and any study of narratives risks imposing the researcher's narrative and values rather than being an "impartial" study. Professor Schiller himself exhibited this - in many instances he seemed to impose his pwn values on the interpretation of historic narratives.

Anyway, thanks for an interesting course.

By Donald H

May 15, 2023

Professor Schiller is an economist, thus the name and the focus of the course. The lessons of the course lean very heavily to the importance, power and necessity of narratives. These lessons could just as easily be applied to many other fields, especially in the social sciences.

By Flavio L

Apr 7, 2023

Interesting point of view about the forces of narratives in economics. Nevertheless the most important concept of this course is "consilience".

It perhaps becomes the key to producing something really important and new in science.

By Russell H

Apr 1, 2023

Interesting perspectives on an under-appreciated driver of economic and social direction, in society at large and personally. Also argues for the importance of multidisciplinary study vs. narrowly-focused specialization.

By Rebecca H

Jun 28, 2023

This short course is not as useful as Prof. other class Financial Markets but thank you for introducing the new concept for narrative economics to me

By fozan t

May 12, 2023

A great introduction to the new field of Narrative Economics, A must course to understand how Narratives influence our everyday life and Economics.

By Antoine F

Mar 12, 2024

Good introduction to the concept of narrative (economics focused but with many other examples too including politics...)

By Henry, W Y W

Aug 24, 2023

The course is quite inspiring and was an eye-opening journey into the narratives and their impact on economic behavior. 

By Philip H

Apr 11, 2023

Very relevant during the reemergence of the AI narrative and concerns about the impact of the technology to employment.

By Jill M

May 3, 2023

Enjoyed learning about this subject as I had no prior knowledge in this area. Was able to learn something new.