Robert J. Shiller, author of the best-selling book 鈥淚rrational Exuberance鈥� and one of the nation鈥檚 leading experts on stock market volatility, will speak at 11:45 a.m. Feb. 12 (Wednesday) in the Jordan Auditorium of the Mendoza College of Business at the University of 91吃瓜. His talk is a part of the college鈥檚 O鈥橞rien-Smith Visiting Scholars Program and is free and open to the public.p. A New York Times nonfiction best seller, 鈥淚rrational Exuberance鈥� was published in March 2000, just as the Nasdaq index was reaching its peak. In the book, Shiller analyzed and explained the soaring stock market of the 1980s and 鈥�90s, observing that Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan鈥檚 term 鈥渋rrational exuberance鈥� was a fitting description of the market, and presciently warning that the levels were unsustainable.p.
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