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The New Financial Order: Risk in the 21st Century

20 reviews
Robert J. Shiller

Princeton University Press, 2004

Extremely complex in its theory, but well worth the effort
Robert J. Shiller proposes the use of mass insurance policies to cure many of society's ills. Think he's crazy? Read the book and judge for yourself. The author makes alot more sense than you might think at first blush.

The Report of the Twentieth Century Fund Task Force on Market Speculation and Corporate Governance: Who's ...

1 review
Robert J. Shiller

Century Foundation Press, 1992

Essential criticism.
This small book is a plea for a long term corporate strategy against the actual short term vision of the business officers, who are hounded by financial analysts only interested by short-term capital gains. The task force gives some excellent recommendations, although it admits that it will be difficult to change the actual mentality. The report also contains a very good analysis of the state of ...

Market Volatility

4 reviews
Robert J. Shiller

The MIT Press, 1992

The best book on volatility ever written!
I am a futures trader/ stock investor/ produce distributor. My constant involvement in markets of one kind or another led me to develop a deep desire to understand volatility. Unfortunately the only books I could find dealt with option volatility. "Market Volatility" has been THE best book dealing with market mechanics that I have ever read. I recommend the book as a "must have" to my ...

Macro Markets: Creating Institutions for Managing Society's Largest Economic Risks (Clarendon Lectures in ...

1 review
Robert J. Shiller

Oxford University Press, USA, 1998

Great in theory...but we need a futures market for it to work properly
This is a very practical nuts-and-bolts "How to save the economic world". Macro institutions are neccessary to avoid various prisoner dilemma decision issues. The UN, World Bank, IMF and a few others attempt to carry this mantle, and they do not really execute, and for the same reason - national interest always overides collective interests. With regards to environmental issues, Shiller's ...

Irrational Exuberance

88 reviews
Robert J. Shiller

Princeton Univ Dept of Art &, 2001

This phrase will live in infamy
Great book based on the phrase spoken by Greenspan to try and slow down the economy.

Behavioral economics and institutional innovation.(Distinguished Guest Lecture): An article from: Southern ...
Robert J. Shiller

Thomson Gale, 2005

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Comments on John Geanakoplos's "The Ideal Inflation-Indexed Bond and Irving Fisher's Impatience Theory of ...
Robert J. Shiller

American Journal of Economics and Sociology, Inc., 2005

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