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About George A. Akerlof & Robert J. Shiller

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 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.

Shiller is known for four major intellectual contributions: co-developing the Case–Shiller housing price index with Karl Case, as well as the cyclically adjusted price-to-earnings ratio; challenging the Efficient Market Hypothesis; and warning years in advance of the stock market and housing bubble that would become the subprime mortgage crisis.

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".

George A. Akerlof & Robert J. Shiller is best known for La economía de la manipulación : cómo caemos como incautos en las trampas del mercado.

On FindMyTBR we track 2 books by George A. Akerlof & Robert J. Shiller, 2 of them confirmed as audiobooks on Spotify or Apple Books — including Animal Spirits: How Human Psychology Drives the Economy, and Why It Matters for Global Capitalism (Unabridged) and Phishing for Phools: The Economics of Manipulation and Deception (Unabridged). Full availability across Spotify, Apple Books, Audible, and Amazon is below.