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Robert J. Shiller Quotes

born 1946 United States

Robert James "Bob" Shiller (born March 29, 1946) is an American economist, and Sterling Professor of Economics at Yale University, best-selling author and Nobel Laureate in 2013 with Eugene Fama and Lars Peter Hansen.

United States
Economists
Nobel laureates

Also known as: Robert Shiller

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To understand the economy then is to comprehend how it is driven by the animal spirits. Just as Adam Smith’s invisible hand is the keynote of classical economics, Keynes’ animal spirits are the keynote to a different view of the economy — a view that explains the underlying instabilities of capitalism.

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