Perhaps no one understands markets—especially runaway markets—better than Robert Shiller. He predicted the dotcom collapse in his New York Times bestseller Irrational Exuberance. More recently, he warned that the housing market was dangerously inflated by historic proportions and due to burst and bring much of the rest of the financial system down with it.
In his forthcoming book (September 2008), The Subprime Solution: How Today's Global Financial Crisis Happened and What to Do About It, Shiller defines the problems in the financial system that have made such market turmoil a recurring phenomenon and lays out solutions that would help prevent such meltdowns in the future.
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Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein  Nudge
Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth and Happiness Since its publication in April, Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth and Happiness has attracted a tremendous amount of positive press. As the subtitle suggests, the ideas in Nudge apply directly to healthcare and financial services and to any organization that depends on offering customers, employees or anyone else options for making decisions are are optimally framed—and what organization isn't? Richard Thaler is one of the founding fathers of behavioral economics and Cass Sunstein is one of the most respected legal minds in the U.S., with publications that reach far beyond the law into many areas of social policy. |
Robert H. Frank 
Economists have refused to treat people as people, and so have painted a distorted picture of the marketplace.Robert H. Frank is also a behavioral economist who has written extensively on how human behavior affects economic decisions and financial markets, and how understanding human behavior could help improve social policy and business performance. He has consistently upended the traditional economic view of people as rational, self-interested actors and explored what really motivates people in economic and competitive environments and how businesses and markets might meet people's real needs more effectively. To learn more about Robert Frank, click here. |
Paul Romer 
There is absolutely no reason why we cannot have persistent growth as far into the future as you can imagine.
What drives wealth creation? Named one of America’s 25 most influential people by Time magazine, Paul Romer is the primary developer of New Growth Theory, which provides a new answer to one of the oldest questions in economics: what sustains economic growth in a physical world characterized by scarcity? The answer: advances in technology. The key to sustaining economic growth is creating economic incentives that support new ideas and their development. |
