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#12 - Robert Shiller, Narrative Economics
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Robert Shiller is a Nobel laureate, meaning he’s won the Nobel prize in economics. He’s a professor of Economics at Yale. He’s written countless papers, articles and books including Irrational Exuberance which predicted both the bubble in equities in the year 2000 as well as the housing crisis. He’s the “Shiller” in the Case-Shiller Indices which is how we measure home prices in this country. And he’s the author of the 2019 book, and main subject of today’s discussion, Narrative Economics.
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- 1:00 - Intro
- 2:00 - Comments on the state of equity markets
- 6:30 - Narrative Contagion & Constellations
- 11:00 - Neuroscience & narratives
- 15:00 - Constructing narratives
- 17:00 Contagion rate & cross-discipline learning
- 19:00 - Consilience
- 22:30 - Behavioral Economics vs Narrative Economics
- 25:30 - Narratives & Truth / Marketing
- 32:30 - October 29 crash narrative & recent crashes
- 39:00 - How does internet distribution affect the contagion rate?
- 43:00 - His recent Op-ed on 1920s
- 49:00 - Thoughts on inflation
39 episodes
Manage episode 290583659 series 2903307
Bio
Robert Shiller is a Nobel laureate, meaning he’s won the Nobel prize in economics. He’s a professor of Economics at Yale. He’s written countless papers, articles and books including Irrational Exuberance which predicted both the bubble in equities in the year 2000 as well as the housing crisis. He’s the “Shiller” in the Case-Shiller Indices which is how we measure home prices in this country. And he’s the author of the 2019 book, and main subject of today’s discussion, Narrative Economics.
Times
- 1:00 - Intro
- 2:00 - Comments on the state of equity markets
- 6:30 - Narrative Contagion & Constellations
- 11:00 - Neuroscience & narratives
- 15:00 - Constructing narratives
- 17:00 Contagion rate & cross-discipline learning
- 19:00 - Consilience
- 22:30 - Behavioral Economics vs Narrative Economics
- 25:30 - Narratives & Truth / Marketing
- 32:30 - October 29 crash narrative & recent crashes
- 39:00 - How does internet distribution affect the contagion rate?
- 43:00 - His recent Op-ed on 1920s
- 49:00 - Thoughts on inflation
39 episodes
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