Robert J. Shiller, a 2013 Nobel laureate in economics, is Professor of Economics at Yale University and the co-creator of the Case-Shiller Index of US house prices. He is the author of
Irrational Exuberance, the third edition of which was published in January 2015, and, most recently, Phishing for Phools: The Economics of Manipulation and Deception, co-authored with George Akerlof.
NEW HAVEN – En su clásica Fábula de las abejas o A vicios privados beneficios públicos (1724), Bernard Mandeville, el filósofo y satírico británico de origen holandés, describió –en verso– una sociedad próspera (de abejas) que de repente optó por hacer de la austeridad una virtud y abandonó todo el exceso de gasto y el consumo derrochador. Entonces, ¿qué ocurrió?
¡La propiedad despreciada,
abandonadas las glebas,
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