Robert J. Shiller

Robert James Shiller (born March 29, 1946) is an American Nobel Laureate, economist, academic, and best-selling author. He serves as a Sterling Professor of Economics at Yale University and is a fellow at the Yale School of Management's International Center for Finance.

Early life
Shiller was born in Detroit, Michigan. He studied at Kalamazoo College and the University of Michigan where he received his B.A. degree in 1967.  He received the S.M. degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1968, and his Ph.D. from MIT in 1972.

Career
Shiller has been a researcher of the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) since 1980, was vice president of the American Economic Association in 2005, and president of the Eastern Economic Association for 2006–2007.

Eugene Fama, Lars Peter Hansen and Shiller received the 2013 Nobel Prize in Economics.The Prize in Economic Sciences 2013 , nobelprize.org, retrieved 14 October 2013

References

Other websites
 Article on Robert J. Shiller (German language) 
 Robert Shiller's interview on the housing crisis with The Politic 
 Video conversation on the economy with Shiller and Robert Wright on Bloggingheads.tv.
 "Finance and the Good Society – Irreconcilable or Inseparable?"  Presentation by Robert J. Shiller for the CFO Insight Magazine, August 2012
 Link to podcast lecture at London School of Economics on Sub Prime Crisis 
 RSA Vision webcasts – Robert Shiller in conversation with Daniel Finkelstein on "How Human Psychology Drives the Economy" 

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