Project Syndicate interviews Robert J. Shiller, Stephen S. Roach, Jeffrey D. Sachs, Angus Deaton.
It has been ten years since the global financial crisis devastated economies worldwide and ushered in an era of unprecedented monetary policies, national debt crises, and untold suffering and loss for billions of people. In this roundtable discussion, we examine the causes, consequences, and lessons learned (or not learned) from the 2008 crash and the Great Recession that followed it.
Robert James "Bob" Shiller (born Detroit, Michigan, March 29, 1946) is an American economist, academic, and best-selling author. He currently serves as the Arthur M. Okun Professor of Economics at Yale University and is a Fellow at the Yale International Center for Finance, Yale School of Management. Shiller has been a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) since 1980, was Vice President of the American Economic Association in 2005, and President of the Eastern Economic Association for 2006-2007. He is also the co-founder and chief economist of the investment management firm MacroMarkets LLC.