Robert Shiller, world-renowned economist and best-selling author, will deliver the First Annual Beattie Family Lecture Series in Business Law on Friday, March 27 at The University of Western Ontario Faculty of Law.
Shiller, who is the Arthur M. Okun Professor of Economics at Yale University, will speak on “Animal Spirits: How Human Psychology caused the Current Economic Crisis.” The event takes place at 5:30 p.m. in Room 38. All are welcome to attend this free public lecture.
Robert Shiller
In his bestselling book “Irrational Exuberance,” an analysis and explication of speculative bubbles, Shiller predicted the peak and collapse of the stock market; the first edition of the book was published in March 2000, the same month the tech stock bubble burst. In the 2005 second edition, Shiller was one of the first to identify a real estate bubble in the U.S. and predicted it would burst and trigger a financial crisis.
He explained the origins of the housing and economic crisis and outlined a plan for recovery in “Subprime Solution: How the Global Financial Crisis Happened and What To Do About It” (2008). His new book, “Animal Spirits: How Human Psychology Drives the Economy, and Why It Matters for Global Capitalism,” co-authored with Nobel Prize winner George Akerlof, was published in March 2009.
Western Law thanks Geoff Beattie ’84, Deputy Chairman Thomson Reuters and President of The Woodbridge Company Limited, for his generous commitment in establishing this prestigious speaker series.