Irrational Economist_ Making Decisions in a Dangerous World - Erwann Michel-Kerjan [163]
Robert J. Shiller, Yale University
Robert Shiller is the Arthur M. Okun Professor of Economics at Yale University and Professor of Finance and Fellow at the International Center for Finance, Yale School of Management. He received his PhD in economics from MIT in 1972. Professor Shiller has written on financial markets, financial innovation, behavioral economics, macroeconomics, real estate, and statistical methods as well as on public attitudes, opinions, and moral judgments regarding markets. He is the author of many books including Subprime Solution: How the Global Financial Crisis Happened and What to Do About It (Princeton University Press, 2008), which offers an analysis of the housing and economic crisis and a plan of action against it. He co-authored, with George Akerlof, Animal Spirits (Princeton University Press, 2009). He has been research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research since 1980, and has been co-organizer of National Bureau of Economic Research workshops on behavioral finance, and on macroeconomics and individual decision making (behavioral macroeconomics). He served as vice president of the American Economic Association in 2005 and as president of the Eastern Economic Association in 2006-2007. He writes two regular columns: “Finance in the 21st Century” for Project Syndicate and “Economic View” for the New York Times.
Paul Slovic, University of Oregon
Paul Slovic is a professor of psychology at the University of Oregon and a founder and president of Decision Research. He holds both an MA (1962) and a PhD (1964) from the University of Michigan. He has received honorary doctorates from the Stockholm School of Economics (1996) and the University of East Anglia (2005). He studies human judgment, decision making, and risk analysis. He and his colleagues worldwide have developed methods to describe risk perceptions and measure their impacts on individuals, industry, and society. He publishes extensively and serves as a consultant to industry and government. His most recent books include The Perception of Risk (Earthscan, 2000), The Social Amplification of Risk, with N. Pidgeon and R. Kasperson (Cambridge University Press, 2003), and The Construction of Preference, with S. Lichtenstein (Cambridge University Press, 2006). Professor Slovic is a past president of the Society for Risk Analysis and, in 1991, received its Distinguished Contribution Award. In 1993, he received the Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award from the American Psychological Association. In 1995, he received the Outstanding Contribution to Science Award from the Oregon Academy of Science.
Cass R. Sunstein, Harvard Law School
Cass Sunstein is the Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and the most cited law professor on any faculty in the United States. He currently serves as administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OMB) at the White House. Professor Sunstein graduated in 1975 from Harvard College and in 1978 from Harvard Law School, both magna cum laude. After graduation, he clerked for Justice Benjamin Kaplan of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court and Justice Thurgood Marshall of the U.S. Supreme Court, and then he worked as an attorney-advisor in the Office of the Legal Counsel of the U.S. Department of Justice. Before joining Harvard, he was a faculty member at the University of Chicago Law School from 1981 to 2008. Sunstein’s many books include After the Rights Revolution (Harvard University Press, 1990), Risk and Reason (Cambridge University Press, 2002), Laws of Fear: Beyond the Precautionary Principle (Cambridge University Press, 2005), Worst-Case Scenarios (Harvard University Press, 2007), and Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness, with Richard H. Thaler (Yale University Press, 2008). He is also co-author of leading casebooks in both constitutional law and administrative law, with academic specialties in these two fields as well as in regulatory policy.
W. Kip Viscusi, Vanderbilt University Law School
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