“..Our decisions to do something positive, the full consequences of which will be drawn out over many days to come, can only be taken as the result of animal spirits – a spontaneous urge to action rather than inaction, and not as the outcome of a weighted average of quantitative benefits multiplied by quantitative probabilities.”

– J.M. Keynes (The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money)

Animal spirits are a term coined by John Maynard Keynes to describe the ‘gut feelings’ that drive human behaviour, notably in reference to human interactions with markets. He postulated that decision-making has as much to do with emotion as it does to do with economic calculus or data.

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