My new book "Narrative Economics: How Stories Go Viral & Drive Major Economic Events" (Princeton 2019) is now out, and will be a basis for an open Yale-Coursera online course next spring: via
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My wife Virginia M Shiller writes convncingly of the significance of the accusations of Christine Blasey Ford, and I have learned from her: Ford-Kavanaugh Hearing Affects All Women
Gates is exaggerating but there's some truth here: Bill Gates: “Economists don’t actually understand macroeconomics” via
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Optimistic that economists will be fixing this problem, will take years.
Sovereign GDP-linked bonds will help countries manage risks, risks of financial crises, even global warming. Download our CEPR book released today, for free here: There seems to be real momentum now; these bonds may actually be issued before long.
I have worked with James Benford and Jonathan Ostry to co-edit a new book on GDP-linked bonds, which can be used by nations to hedge their risks, free here: . Column about it in The Guardian here:
Bloomberg/Businessweek published excerpt from my new book Narrative Economics: How Stories Go Viral and Drive Major Economic Events Excerpt is about the robots--like dial telephones-- replacing jobs narrative as major cause of the depression fears 1929.
The American Association of Individual Investors has just reprinted a 2013 interview of me about the stock market, where I advised putting "something in the market" despite high CAPE. Still true today, though more precarious.