Chevron Left
Back to Narrative Economics

Learner Reviews & Feedback for Narrative Economics by Yale University

4.8
stars
659 ratings

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...
...

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

Filter by:

176 - 192 of 192 Reviews for Narrative Economics

By Robert O

Apr 3, 2023

Very broad look into narrative economics, would suggest you do this cert if you are doing an economics degree

By Kaibalya B B

Sep 18, 2024

Sometimes the videos were a bit monotonous but overall a course to learn narrative economics

By simon p

Feb 13, 2024

well spoken and interesting lectures. However, I would have loved assignments of some kind.

By OMAR D H P

Sep 20, 2023

interestgn course, some videos were blurry, some questions odd and very hard to follow

By MUSTAFA K E

Feb 9, 2025

i m greatful to you adorable teacher dear robert

By Scott S

May 31, 2023

Somewhat redundant with the narrative material.

By Bruce H

Jul 10, 2023

A bit rambling but interesting nonetheless.

By Ruth S

Sep 5, 2023

Gained a lot of insights from this course.

By Phil R

Mar 27, 2023

Interesting course, thank you!

By Fedir C

Dec 16, 2024

Good introduction course

By Harvey C

Dec 28, 2023

I liked the tests, between each chapters. However, I feel like a lot of the topics weren't spoken in much detail

By Henok T

May 27, 2023

be good if u included more technical workings

By AYUSH S

Jun 17, 2024

good course, but not very important

By Veenaa A

Jan 18, 2025

can be more interactive

By Jeff L

Jan 17, 2024

Shiller is a terrific thinker and a really good teacher. Here, he is just beginning to explore a new idea. His thinking is a bit scattered, and his scholarship is weak. Not his best work!

By Craig C

May 5, 2024

It starts off with an unrealistic model of a virus spread among a population by assuming that every contact results in infection. It then proceeds with irrelevant waffle and quote mining along with one or two book promotions. I'm guessing his Google search of this "subject" is a shameless way to bump up his book in Google searches ? Although that's speculation on my part. But it's a lot of words for little to no useful information

By Kavya A

Jun 18, 2024

horrible