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Robert J. Shiller

Né(e): March 29, 1946 – Detroit, Michigan, United States

Robert J. Shiller is an American economist and Yale professor known for pioneering behavioral finance and studying asset prices, bubbles, and economic narratives. He wrote Irrational Exuberance and co-wrote Animal Spirits, and received the 2013 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for empirical analysis of asset prices.

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Robert J. Shiller, born in Detroit on March 29, 1946, came of age in a Lithuanian-American family and developed an unusually broad curiosity early. In his Nobel autobiographical sketch, he recalled a restless childhood, a strong attraction to reading, and a decisive moment in high school when his older brother brought home Paul Samuelson’s economics textbook, which convinced him that economics could be pursued as a serious science. He began college at Kalamazoo College, transferred to the University of Michigan, earned his BA in 1967, and then completed an SM in 1968 and a PhD in 1972 at MIT. After early appointments at Pennsylvania and Minnesota, he joined Yale in 1982, the institution most closely associated with his career. ((https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/economic-sciences/2013/shiller/biographical/))

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I think that financial capitalism is developing along a good trajectory
-What’s Ahead for Financial Markets? An Interview with Robert Shiller
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Narrative economics, as I define it, is the study of popular narratives: stories with morals that go viral
-Narrative Economics: How Stories Go Viral
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Finance is about creating the wherewithal for human activities
-What Should Finance Do for Society?
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There is still no consensus on why the last housing boom and bust happened
-How Tales of ‘Flippers’ Led to a Housing Bubble
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National leaders are crucial in the shaping of narratives
-How Will We Tell the Story of COVID-19?
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Bitcoin is the best example today of a speculative bubble, at least as I define a bubble
-Three Questions: Prof. Robert Shiller on Bitcoin
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We are, once again, experiencing one of the greatest housing booms in United States history
-The Housing Boom Is Already Gigantic. How Long Can It Last?
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The companies come and go, but people survive
-What does it take to create a market?
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I would say that a speculative bubble is a peculiar kind of fad or social epidemic
-Speculative Asset Prices

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"Robert Shiller has done more than any other economist of his generation to document the less rational aspects of financial markets"

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"Yale economist Robert Shiller won a Nobel prize for work suggesting financial markets might not always be quite as efficient as we think"

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"Long viewed as an eccentric among his fellow economists, Robert Shiller worked at the crossroads of economics and human psychology"

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