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Robert Shiller | Animal Spirits: How Human Psychology Drives the Economy, and Why it Matters for Global Capitalism
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Professor Robert Shiller, will present the annual Irene and Bernard L. Schwartz lecture titled Animal Spirits: How Human Psychology Drives the Economy, and Why it Matters for Global Capitalism, focusing on the current economic crisis and its causes and consequences. The lecture will be based on Professor Shillers upcoming book of the same title, which is co-authored with George Akerlof, Koshland Professor of Economics at University of California, Berkeley and Nobel Laureate. A panel discussion and question and answer session, will follow the lecture with Professor Brad DeLong, professor of Economics, University of California Berkeley, Teresa Ghilarducci, Irene and Bernard L. Schwartz Professor of Economic Policy Analysis, The New School for Social Research; Director, SCEPA and Jeff Madrick, seniors fellow, SCEPA, The New School for Social Research.

Robert J. Shiller is the Arthur M. Okun Professor of Economics, and Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics at Yale University. He is also professor of Finance and Fellow at the International Center for Finance at Yale School of Management. He has written about financial markets, financial innovation, behavioral economics, macroeconomics, real estate, and statistical methods, as well as on public attitudes, opinions, and moral judgments regarding markets.

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Brad DeLong is a professor in the Department of Economics at U.C. Berkeley; chair of the Berkeley International and Area Studies Political Economy major; a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research; and a visiting scholar at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco. From 1993 to 1995 he worked for the U.S. Treasury as a deputy assistant secretary for economic policy.

The Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysisis the economic policy research arm of The New School for Social Researchs Department of Economics. Each year the center hosts economic policy workshops, publishes topical policy notes, and sponsors newsworthy lectures by top economists and financial leaders. SCEPAs work is supported in part by a generous gift from Irene and Bernard L. Schwartz.

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* Location: Tishman Auditorium, Alvin Johnson/J. M. Kaplan Hall. 02/18/2009 6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.

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