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| 1. | Amazon.com |
| CNBC, day trading, the Motley Fool, Silicon Investor--not since the 1920s
has there been such an intense fascination with the U.S. stock market. For
an increasing number of Americans, logging on to Yahoo! Finance is... read full editorial |
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| 2. | From Library Journal |
| Taking his book's title and thesis from Alan Greenspan's 1996 description
of investors, Shiller (economics, Yale Univ.) studies the current booming
U.S. stock market in historical terms. His research into past U.S... read full editorial |
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| 3. | The New York Times Book Review, Louis Uchitelle |
| No one has explored the strange behavior of the American investor in the
1990's with more authority, or better timing, than Robert J. Shiller.
--This text refers to the
Hardcover edition. |
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| 4. | John Cassidy, The New Yorker |
| During the past decade, he has emerged as a leader in the new field of
"behavioral finance" which seeks to apply lessons learned from other
academic disciplines, particularly psychology to economics. Irrational
Exuberance... read full editorial |
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| 5. | The Economist |
| Irrational Exuberance should be compulsory reading for anybody interested
in Wall Street or financially exposed to it; at the moment that would be
roughly everybody in the United States, from Alan Greenspan down... read full editorial |
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| 6. | Paul Krugman, The New York Times |
| "Given the title of Mr. Shiller's book, you can guess the punch line. He
makes a powerful case that the soaring stock market of recent years is a
huge, accidental Ponzi scheme in progress, one that will come to a very... read full editorial |
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| 7. | Robert J. Samuelson, The Washington Post |
| Alan Greenspan faces long odds in trying to nudge the stock market to where
he'd like it to go. The chairman of the Federal Reserve has argued that
the buoyant market--by making Americans feel so much... read full editorial |
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| 8. | David Warsh, Boston Globe |
| Thus it is an event of some significance that Shiller has written a
crystal-clear and tough-minded critique of the factors that have driven US
stock markets to their current levels and called his book... read full editorial |
