FT Alphachat

Robert Shiller: market narratives are 'like diseases'

01.08.2019 - By Financial TimesPlay

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A bonus episode from the annual meeting of the American Economic Association in Atlanta this past weekend. Brendan Greeley caught up with Yale economist and Nobel laureate Robert Shiller, who argues that if you want to understand markets you have to understand stories — how they start and how they spread. They talked about the stories driving share prices down in December, about Jim Cramer and about the narrative power of Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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