Leavey Prof Looks Back At Role, Helping Nobel Prize Winner Richard Thaler
In the wake of famed economist Richard Thaler recently winning the Nobel Prize, the SCU Leavey School of Business looked deeper into SCU’s historical role in the development of the behavioral economics field.
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The Global Financial Crisis and Its Aftermath: Quinlan Professor Pens Book About 2008 Global Financial Crisis
According to a new book co-edited by Quinlan School of Business Professor A. G. (Tassos) Malliaris, the instability of the human mind led to the formation and sheer magnitude of the 2008 global financial crisis. This hypothesis is explored and tested in The Global Financial Crisis and Its Aftermath: Hidden Factors in the Meltdown. The book focuses on the three factors that intensified the meltdown—economic, psychological and social values—and features chapters written by Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen, behavioral finance pioneer Hersh Shefrin and New York Times best-selling author Nassim Taleb.
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