Economic growth | PodcastKarthik Sastry on Animal Spirits and the EconomyWhile we like to think our financial decisions are based on logic, the truth is, they are largely driven by emotion. So when John Maynard Keynes looked for methods to measure economic fluctuations, animal spirits were a key ingredient. Karthik Sastry is a macroeconomist and assistant professor at Princeton University. In this podcast, he says personal instincts and primal urges are known to cause cycles of boom and bust, and one way to gauge those emotions is through economic narratives.KARTHIK SASTRYSee AlsoMagazine ArchivesCountry FocusBlogs
