Richard Bronk, author of ‘The Romantic Economist’, welcomes the publication of Akerlof and Shiller's ‘Animal Spirits’ as a well-written and rigorously argued blow to the narrow motivational assumptions in standard economics. He argues, however, that Akerlof and Shiller could benefit both from absorbing lessons of Romanticism about the role of imagination . Bronk also questions classifying a sense of fairness as ‘animal spirits’ in the first place.   more »