Understanding Financial Markets

Robert Shiller, who pre­dict­ed the stock mar­ket crash ear­li­er this decade and the burst­ing of the hous­ing bub­ble in 2008, has a unique under­stand­ing of the finan­cial mar­kets and behav­ioral eco­nom­ics. In this free course pro­vid­ed by Yale Uni­ver­si­ty, Shiller demys­ti­fies the finan­cial mar­kets and explains “the the­o­ry of finance and its rela­tion to the his­to­ry, the strengths and imper­fec­tions of such insti­tu­tions as bank­ing, insur­ance, secu­ri­ties, futures, and oth­er deriv­a­tives mar­kets, and the future of these insti­tu­tions over the next cen­tu­ry.” It’s a course for our shaky finan­cial times. The first lec­ture appears above, and the full course can be accessed on YouTubeiTunes and Yale’s web site. The course is also list­ed in our meta col­lec­tion of Free Cours­es and our tar­get­ed selec­tion of Free Eco­nom­ics Cours­es.


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  • John Neumayer says:

    I was inter­est­ed in the top­ic, but could­n’t sit through the umming and aahing of the pro­fes­sors. Some peo­ple are bril­liant but can’t speak. They should­n’t be pub­lic speak­ers.

    • Dfad44 says:

      Its very infor­ma­tive, I think you may be doing your­self a dis­ser­vice let­ting his inar­tic­u­la­cy (which isn’t so bad) deter you from receiv­ing the knowl­edge he has to offer

    • Dfad44 says:

      Its very infor­ma­tive, I think you may be doing your­self a dis­ser­vice let­ting his inar­tic­u­la­cy (which isn’t so bad) deter you from receiv­ing the knowl­edge he has to offer

      • rodney says:

        please remove this com­ment, it was only after I read this that I got dis­tract­ed by what he is talk­ing about,I would have prob­a­bly ignored it.

  • Scott Lynn Riley says:

    It too bad the emi­nent teacher of this course has no clue how to pro­nounce Chi­nese names. Thanks.

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