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About the Author

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-elect 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.

In 2003, he co-authored a Brookings Institution paper called “Is There a Bubble in the Housing Market?”, and in 2005 he warned that “further rises in the [stock and housing] markets could lead, eventually, to even more significant declines… A long-run consequence could be a decline in consumer and business confidence, and another, possibly worldwide, recession.” Writing in The Wall Street Journal in August 2006, Shiller again warned that “there is significant risk of a … possible recession sooner than most of us expected.”, and in September 2007, almost exactly one year before the collapse of Lehman Brothers, Shiller wrote an article in which he predicted an imminent collapse in the U.S. housing market, and subsequent financial panic.

Shiller was ranked by the IDEAS RePEc publications monitor in 2008 as among the 100 most influential economists of the world; and was still on the list in 2019. Eugene Fama, Lars Peter Hansen and Shiller jointly received the 2013 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, “for their empirical analysis of asset prices”.

Books

  • Narrative Economics: How Stories Go Viral and Drive Major Economic Events,=
  • Phishing for Phools: The Economics of Manipulation and Deception=
  • Finance and the Good Society
  • Animal Spirits: How Human Psychology Drives the Economy, and Why It Matters for Global Capitalism
  • The Subprime Solution: How Today’s Global Financial Crisis Happened, and What to Do about It
  • The New Financial Order: Risk in the 21st Century
  • Irrational Exuberance
  • Macro Markets: Creating Institutions for Managing Society’s largest Economic Risks
  • Market Volatility