Animal Spirits


(...) the business cycle is connected to fluctuations in personnal commitment to principles of good behavior, and to fluctuations in predatory activity, which in turn is related to changes in opportunities for such activity.

in Akerlof, George A., and Robert J. Schiller. 2009. Animal Spirits: 38

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