Robert Shiller: Belief and the Economy

Professor of economics at Yale University and co-creator of the Case-Shiller Index of U.S. home prices, Robert Shiller has written extensively on just how large a role belief plays in economic behavior: on stock market bubbles in 'Irrational Exuberance', on Keynesian psychological forces in the economy in 'Animal Spirits', on trickery in marketing in 'Phishing for Phools'. Shiller, a 2013 Nobel laureate in economics for his work on predicting asset markets, will deliver this year's Franke Lecture, sharing some of his latest thinking about the role narrative plays in economic life.

This annual lecture recognizes the significant contributions to the Chicago Humanities Festival made by its founder and chairman emeritus Richard J. Franke.