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Money Illusion

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Money Illusion
In economics, the tendency of persons not to consider inflation or deflation when making decisions. That is, the money illusion states that people think in terms of the amount of money they have, rather than in terms of its value (which tends to decline over time). The money illusion was described by John Maynard Keynes and Irving Fisher.


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There is no money illusion if changes in the unit of account don't change anything real.
Under the broader rubric of animal spirits as they define it, Akerlof and Shiller cite five factors that cause behavior to deviate from rationality, devoting one chapter to each of them: confidence, fairness, corruption and antisocial behavior, money illusion, and stories.
This result means that reward activation generally increases with income, but was significantly higher in situations where nominal incomes and prices were both 50 per cent higher, which supports the hypothesis that activity in the ventromedial prefrontal cortex is subject to money illusion," The Telegraph quoted Prof Falk, as saying Prof Falk added: "Economists have traditionally been sceptical about the notion of money illusion, but recent behavioural evidence has challenged this view.
 
 
 
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