The book by Nobel laureate in economics George Akerlof and Yale University professor Robert Shiller talks about the features of human behavior that affect macroeconomic processes. These features have so far been insufficiently taken into account by those who determine the economic policies of states, as a result of which more or less serious financial disruptions periodically occur - depressions, overheating of markets, etc. Although the authors describe a number of complex macroeconomic mechanisms, in general the book will be understandable to a wide range of readers, because everyone has repeatedly encountered these properties of the human psyche in everyday life.