The New Financial Order: Risk in the 21st Century

by Robert J. Shiller

Book Overview

In his best-selling Irrational Exuberance , Robert Shiller cautioned that society's obsession with the stock market was fueling the volatility that has since made a roller coaster of the financial system. Less noted was Shiller's admonition that our infatuation with the stock market distracts us from more durable economic prospects. These lie in the hidden potential of real assets, such as income from our livelihoods and homes. But these ''ordinary...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691091722
• ISBN13: 9780691091723
• Release Date: April 2003
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.0" x 9.3"