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Robert J. Shiller

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Also known as Robert James Shiller, Bob Shiller, Robert Shiller

American economist

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Robert J. Shiller is an American economist known for his research on financial markets and behavioral economics. His work matters because it has helped explain why markets don't always behave rationally and has influenced how economists understand bubbles, crashes, and human decision-making in finance.

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Person · Open Library

Works
53

Top works

  • Estimation of the investment and price equations of a macroeconometric model
  • A scorecard for indexed government debt
  • Popular attitudes towards free markets
  • Market Volatility
  • El estallido de la burbuja

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Type
Person
Gender
Female
Origin
United Kingdom
Active from
1965-07-31
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Listeners
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Total plays
369

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Quotes

  • To understand the economy then is to comprehend how it is driven by the animal spirits. Just as Adam Smith’s invisible hand is the keynote of classical economics, Keynes’ animal spirits are the keynote to a different view of the economy — a view that explains the underlying instabilities of capitalism.

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Nobel Prize

  • The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel2013

    for their empirical analysis of asset prices

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Encyclopedic overview

Nobel Memorial Prize Laureate Robert J. Shiller during press conference in Stockholm, December 2013

Robert James Shiller (born March 29, 1946) is an American economist, academic, and author. As of 2022, he served as a Sterling Professor of Economics at Yale University and is a fellow at the Yale School of Management's International Center for Finance. Shiller has been a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) since 1980, was vice president of the American Economic Association in 2005, its president for 2016, and president of the Eastern Economic Association for 2006–2007. He is also the co‑founder and chief economist of the investment management firm MacroMarkets LLC.

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