PLEASE JOIN THE
NEW YORK PSYCHOANALYTIC SOCIETY & INSTITUTE
AS IT CONTINUES ITS CENTENARY CELEBRATION
WITH AN
INTERVIEW OF ROBERT AND VIRGINIA SHILLER
BY ROBERT FRIEDMAN
(l to r: R. Shiller, V. Shiller, R. Friedman)
Journalist Robert Friedman interviews economist and best-selling author Robert Shiller and psychologist Virginia Shiller
When: Friday, March 11, 2011, 7:30 PM
Where: The Auditorium of The New York Psychoanalytic Institute
Admission is free and open to the public
For further information: admdir@nypsa.org or 212.879.6900
Robert J. Shiller is the Arthur M. Okun Professor of Economics, Department of Economics and Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics, Yale University, and Professor of Finance and Fellow at the International Center for Finance, Yale School of Management. He received his B.A. from the University of Michigan in 1967 and his Ph.D. in economics from MIT in 1972. He has written on financial markets, financial innovation, behavioral economics, macroeconomics, real estate, statistical methods, and on public attitudes, opinions, and moral judgments regarding markets.
His 1989 book Market Volatility (MIT Press) is a mathematical and behavioral analysis of price fluctuations in speculative markets. His 1993 book Macro Markets: Creating Institutions for Managing Society’s Largest Economic Risks (Oxford University Press) proposes a variety of new risk-management contracts, such as futures contracts in national incomes or securities based on real estate that would permit the management of risks to standards of living. His book Irrational Exuberance (Princeton University Press (PUP) 2000, 2nd edition (PUP 2005) is an analysis and explication of speculative bubbles, with special reference to the stock market and real estate. His book The New Financial Order: Risk in the 21st Century (PUP 2003) is an analysis of an expanding role of finance, insurance, and public finance in our future. His book Subprime Solution: How the Global Financial Crisis Happened and What to Do about It, published in September 2008 (PUP), offers an analysis of the housing and economic crisis and a plan of action against it. He co-authored, with George A. Akerlof, Animal Spirits: How Human Psychology Drives the Economy and Why It Matters for Global Capitalism published in March 2009 (PUP).
His repeat-sales home price indices, developed originally with Karl E. Case, are now published as the Standard & Poor’s/Case Shiller Home Price Indices. The Chicago Mercantile Exchange now maintains futures markets based on these indices.
He has been research associate, National Bureau of Economic Research, since 1980 and co-organizer of NBER workshops, since 1991. He served as Vice President of the American Economic Association, 2005 and President of the Eastern Economic Association, 2006-07.
He writes a column “Finance in the 21st Century” for Project Syndicate which publishes around the world and an “Economic View” column for The New York Times. He is co-founder and chief economist of MacroMarkets LLC.
Virginia M. Shiller is a Clinical Instructor at the Yale Child Study Center and in private practice in New Haven, Connecticut. She received her B.A. from Brandeis University in 1975, completed her clinical internship at The Cambridge Hospital in 1981, and was awarded her Ph.D. from the University of Delaware in 1985.
Dr. Shiller is a member of the Child Study Center’s Young Child faculty, and has particular clinical and research interest in the areas of attachment and trauma. Her publications include two case studies in the Psychoanalytic Study of the Child, and she has written on a wide range of topics including children’s emotional responses to separation, children’s adjustment to joint physical custody, and on humanistic and individualized approaches to behavioral programs.
For eleven years, Dr. Shiller served as a Board member of the Connecticut Society for Psychoanalytic Psychology. She also served on the Board of the Connecticut Psychological Association, and was chair of the Association’s Children and Youth Committee. Recently, she has been nominated as CPA representative to the Advisory Board of the Connecticut Office of the Child Advocate.
In her private practice, Dr. Shiller works with children, adolescents, adults, couples and families.
Robert Friedman is an editor at large at Bloomberg News, where he has helped guide coverage of the global financial crisis.
Prior to joining Bloomberg in 2008, he was international editor of Fortune for seven years, in charge of the magazine’s Europe and Asia editions, as well as its global business coverage.
He was also an assistant managing editor of Life magazine, where he edited six special issues and two books: The Beatles: From Yesterday to Today and The Life Millennium: The 100 Most Important Events and People of the Past 1,000 Years. Before that he was special projects editor at New York Newsday, overseeing a team of reporters that produced many award-winning series; editor of the Village Voice; a staff reporter at the Wall Street Journal, where he covered legal and media issues; a freelance writer for Esquire, Inside Sports, Rolling Stone, New York, American Heritage, and other magazines; and the editor of MORE, a magazine about the media.
A graduate of Columbia College, he was editor-in-chief of the Columbia Daily Spectator and co-author of Up Against the Ivy Wall, a book about the 1968 student protests at Columbia. He also has an M.A. in American literature from Columbia University and has been an adjunct professor at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.
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