Fixing the U.S. financial system

Guest: 
Robert Shiller, Arthur M. Okun Professor of Economics, Cowles Foundation, and School of Management
October 27, 2010

Professor Shiller has written numerous articles and books about financial markets, behavioral economics, macroeconomics, real estate, statistical methods, and public attitudes, opinions and moral judgments regarding markets. He is the former vice president of the American Economic Association and former president of the Eastern Economic Association. Professor Shiller’s column, “Economic View,” appears in The New York Times. We talk with him about The Squam Lake Report – his latest book collaboration with 14 of the world’s leading economists that offers a plan on how to fix our financial system.

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