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Robert Shiller

Robert Shiller

Sterling Professor of Economics, Yale University and winner of the 2013 Nobel Prize

Robert J. Shiller is Sterling Professor of Economics at Yale University, and Professor of Finance and Fellow at the International Center for Finance, Yale School of Management.

He has written on financial markets, financial innovation, behavioral economics, macroeconomics, real estate, statistical methods, and on public attitudes, opinions, and moral judgments regarding markets.

His books include Irrational Exuberance (Princeton 2000, Broadway Books, 2001; 2nd edition Princeton, 2005; 3rd edition Princeton 2015); The New Financial Order: Risk in the 21st Century (Princeton University Press, 2003); Subprime Solution: How the Global Financial Crisis Happened and What to Do about It, (Princeton University Press, 2008); Animal Spirits: How Human Psychology Drives the Economy and Why It Matters for Global Capitalism (co-authored with George A. Akerlof, Princeton University Press, 2009); Finance and the Good Society, (Princeton University Press, 2012) and Phishing for Phools: The Economics of Manipulation & Deception (Princeton University Press, 2015).

He writes a regular column "Finance in the 21st Century" for Project Syndicate, which publishes around the world, and "Economic View" for The New York Times.

He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences jointly with Eugene Fama and Lars Peter Hansen in 2013.