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DESCRIPTION:Note: due to technical issues\, this event was postponed on its
  original broadcast date of June 17. We apologize for the inconvenience of
  rescheduling and hope you can join us on July 2.\n \n\nIn this interactiv
 e forum\, Robert Shiller SM '68\, PhD '72\, Sterling Professor of Economic
 s at Yale University\, will discuss his 2019 book Narrative Economics: How
  Stories Go Viral and Drive Major Economic Events\, and take questions fro
 m participants. David Rotman\, editor at large for MIT Technology Review\,
  will moderate. \n\nAbout Narrative Economics\n\nIt isn't just diseases th
 at go viral\, it is also narratives\, including economic narratives that c
 hange how people make economic decisions. In the current Covid-19 pandemic
  and in a world in which internet troll farms attempt to influence foreign
  elections\, is it realistic to ignore the power of viral stories to affec
 t economies? In this groundbreaking book\, Nobel Prize–winning economist
  and New York Times bestselling author Robert Shiller offers a new way to 
 think about the economy and economic change. Using a rich array of histori
 cal examples and data\,\n\nShiller argues that studying popular stories th
 at affect individual and collective economic behavior—what he calls “n
 arrative economics”—has the potential to vastly improve our ability to
  predict\, prepare for\, and lessen the damage of financial crises\, reces
 sions\, depressions\, and other major economic events......[read more]
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SUMMARY:Faculty Forum Online: Robert Shiller SM '68\, PhD '72
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DESCRIPTION:Note: due to technical issues\, this event was postponed on its
  original broadcast date of June 17. We apologize for the inconvenience of
  rescheduling and hope you can join us on July 2.\n \n\nIn this interactiv
 e forum\, Robert Shiller SM '68\, PhD '72\, Sterling Professor of Economic
 s at Yale University\, will discuss his 2019 book Narrative Economics: How
  Stories Go Viral and Drive Major Economic Events\, and take questions fro
 m participants. David Rotman\, editor at large for MIT Technology Review\,
  will moderate. \n\nAbout Narrative Economics\n\nIt isn't just diseases th
 at go viral\, it is also narratives\, including economic narratives that c
 hange how people make economic decisions. In the current Covid-19 pandemic
  and in a world in which internet troll farms attempt to influence foreign
  elections\, is it realistic to ignore the power of viral stories to affec
 t economies? In this groundbreaking book\, Nobel Prize–winning economist
  and New York Times bestselling author Robert Shiller offers a new way to 
 think about the economy and economic change. Using a rich array of histori
 cal examples and data\,\n\nShiller argues that studying popular stories th
 at affect individual and collective economic behavior—what he calls “n
 arrative economics”—has the potential to vastly improve our ability to
  predict\, prepare for\, and lessen the damage of financial crises\, reces
 sions\, depressions\, and other major economic events......[read more]
LOCATION:
SUMMARY:Faculty Forum Online: Robert Shiller SM '68\, PhD '72
URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.mit.edu/event/faculty_forum_online_robert_sh
 iller_sm_68_phd_72
CATEGORIES:Conferences/Seminars/Lectures
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