rational markets and the human animal, reconsidered

Thursday, 6 August 2009, 13:05 | Category : analysis, the economy
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As the country picks itself up from its latest financial spill, it’s vital to consider the assumptions that led people to act the way they did, and to update those assumptions as we move  forward.
Here Yale professor Robert Shiller examines the idea that markets “know,” like some omnipotent being, and therefore can never be wrong. [...]