Irrational Exuberance

Shiller's 2009 preface to his prescient classic on behavioral economics and market volatility declares that "the irrational exuberance of the stock and housing markets has been ended by an economic crisis of a magnitude not seen since the Great Depression of the 1930s. " Crawling from the wreckage of our heedless bubble economy, we can't afford to let this book's shrewd insights, sober warnings, and hard facts fall by the wayside.