Animal spirits
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Animal spirits may refer to:
- Animal spirits (Keynes)Animal spirits (Keynes)"Animal spirits" is the term John Maynard Keynes used in his 1936 book The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money to describe emotions which influence human behavior and can be measured in terms of consumer confidence. Trust is also included or produced by "animal spirits"...
, the Keynesian term indicating the emotional component of economies represented in consumer confidence - Animal Spirits: How Human Psychology Drives the Economy, and Why It Matters for Global CapitalismAnimal Spirits: How Human Psychology Drives the Economy, and Why It Matters for Global CapitalismAnimal Spirits: How Human Psychology Drives the Economy, and Why It Matters for Global Capitalism is a book written to promote the understanding of the role played by emotions in influencing economic decision making...
, a 2009 book by economists George Akerlof and Robert Shiller - AnimismAnimismAnimism refers to the belief that non-human entities are spiritual beings, or at least embody some kind of life-principle....
, a philosophical, religious or spiritual idea that souls or spirits exist in humans, animals, plants or other entities