The latest by and about Dr. Robert J. Shiller, Nobel prize winner and author of Irrational Exuberance. Independent and unaffiliated.
Saturday, November 26, 2016
Trump, and Great Business Ideas for America
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Monday, November 21, 2016
Donald Trump and the Sense of Power
NEW HAVEN – US President-elect Donald Trump campaigned in part on a proposal to cut taxes dramatically for those with high incomes, a group whose members often have elite educations as well. And yet his most enthusiastic support tended to come from those with average and stagnating incomes and low levels of education. What gives?
Saturday, October 15, 2016
What’s Behind a Rise in Ethnic Nationalism? Maybe the Economy
Global economic weakness and a rise in inequality appear to be causing a disturbing growth in ethnic nationalism.
Monday, September 19, 2016
The Coming Anti-National Revolution
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Saturday, August 27, 2016
Today’s Inequality Could Easily Become Tomorrow’s Catastrophe
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Friday, July 22, 2016
The Global Economy’s Hesitation Blues
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Friday, July 15, 2016
Why Land May Not Be the Smartest Place to Put Your Nest Egg
But over the long run, it hasn’t been. Despite solid price increases over the last few years, land and homes have actually been disappointing investments. It’s worth considering why.
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Saturday, June 11, 2016
The Overinflated Fear of Being Priced Out of Housing
Rising home prices set off fears that real estate will become even more expensive, making it impossible ever to buy a home in a given city.
It’s easy to understand how such worries spread, but the historical record suggests that these fears are generally exaggerated. Cities with steep price increases today will probably have much smaller upticks in the future. And for the most part, differences in price increases among cities are well explained by short-term variations in employment growth.
Friday, May 20, 2016
Fighting the Next Global Financial Crisis
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Saturday, April 30, 2016
Listen Carefully for Hints of the Next Global Recession
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Monday, March 14, 2016
Is Russia’s National Character Authoritarian?
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Saturday, March 12, 2016
How Wage Insurance Could Ease Economic Inequality
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Saturday, February 20, 2016
Popular Attitudes Towards Markets and Democracy: Russia and United States Compared 25 Years Later
We repeat a survey we did in the waning days of the Soviet Union (Shiller, Boycko and Korobov, AER 1991) comparing attitudes towards free markets between Moscow and New York. Additional survey questions, from Gibson Duch and Tedin (J. Politics 1992) are added to compare attitudes towards democracy. Two comparisons are made: between countries, and through time, to explore the existence of international differences in allegiance to democratic free-market institutions, and the stability of these differences. While we find some differences in attitudes towards markets across countries and through time, we do not find most of the differences large or significant. Our evidence does not support a common view that the Russian personality is fundamentally illiberal or non-democratic.
Friday, January 22, 2016
How Stories Drive the Stock Market
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Tuesday, January 19, 2016
Economists on the Refugee Path
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