Feeling lucky: what drives economic optimism? (journal article)
by Gideon Haigh
from The Monthly, Dec 2008 - Jan 2009, pp. 42 - 49
...There is a way of scrutinising the economic tribulations of the past year, one in which hope - security in the present and the belief in a better tomorrow - is actually a dimension of the problem, rather than a key to its solution. What might be changing is the view of homo economicus as a rational, profit-maximising actor, replaced by the vision of a guileless optimist oblivious to his or her ignorance.
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