Irrational Exuberance

出版者:Crown Business

作者:Robert J. Shiller

页数:336

出版时间:2006-5-9

价格:USD 16.00

装帧:Paperback

isbn号码:9780767923637

具体描述

《非理性繁荣》书名取自美国联邦准备理事会理事主席葛林史班 1996 年底在华府希尔顿饭店演讲中，谈到当时美国金融资产价格泡沫时所引用的一句名言。从那时起，许多学者、专家都注意到美国股市因投机风气过盛而引发的投资泡沫现象。

Book Description

In this timely and prescient update of his celebrated 2000 bestseller, Robert Shiller returns to the topic that gained him international fame: market volatility. Having predicted the stock market collapse that began just one month after the first edition was published, he now expands the book to cover other markets that have become volatile, particularly the recently red-hot housing market. He includes a full chapter on domestic and international housing prices in historical perspective.

Shiller amasses impressive evidence to support his argument that the recent housing market boom bears many similarities to the stock market bubble of the late 1990s, and may eventually be followed by declining home prices for years to come. After stocks plummeted when the bubble burst in 2000, investors moved their money into housing. This precipitated the inflated real estate prices not only in America but around the world, Shiller maintains. Hence, irrational exuberance did not disappear—it merely reappeared in other settings.

Building on the original edition, Shiller draws out the psychological origins of volatility in financial markets, this time folding real estate into his analysis. He broadens the evidence that investing in capital markets of all kinds in the modern free-market economy is inherently unstable—subject to the profoundly human influences captured in Alan Greenspan’s now-famous phrase, “irrational exuberance.” As was true of its predecessor, the second edition of Irrational Exuberance is destined to be widely read, discussed, and debated.

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CNBC, day trading, the Motley Fool, Silicon Investor--not since the 1920s has there been such an intense fascination with the U.S. stock market. For an increasing number of Americans, logging on to Yahoo! Finance is a habit more precious than that morning cup of joe (as thousands of SBUX and YHOO shareholders know too well). Yet while the market continues to go higher, many of us can't get Alan Greenspan's famous line out of our heads. In Irrational Exuberance, Yale economics professor Robert J. Shiller examines this public fascination with stocks and sees a combination of factors that have driven stocks higher, including the rise of the Internet, 401(k) plans, increased coverage by the popular media of financial news, overly optimistic cheerleading by analysts and other pundits, the decline of inflation, and the rise of the mutual fund industry. He writes: "Perceived long-term risk is down.... Emotions and heightened attention to the market create a desire to get into the game. Such is irrational exuberance today in the United States."

By history's yardstick, Shiller believes this market is grossly overvalued, and the factors that have conspired to create and amplify this event--the baby-boom effect, the public infatuation with the Internet, and media interest--will most certainly abate. He fears that too many individuals and institutions have come to view stocks as their only investment vehicle, and that investors should consider looking beyond stocks as a way to diversify and hedge against the inevitable downturn. This is a serious and well-researched book that should read like a Stephen King novel to anyone who has staked his or her future on the market's continued success.

　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　--Harry C. Edwards

From The New Yorker

During the past decade, he has emerged as a leader in the new field of "behavioral finance" which seeks to apply lessons learned from other academic disciplines, particularly psychology to economics. Irrational Exuberance is not just a prophecy of doom. Encompassing history, sociology, and biology, as well as psychology and economics, it is a serious attempt to explain how speculative bubbles come about and how they sustain themselves.

　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　John Cassidy

From Library Journal

Taking his book's title and thesis from Alan Greenspan's 1996 description of investors, Shiller (economics, Yale Univ.) studies the current booming U.S. stock market in historical terms. His research into past U.S. and international markets indicates that during every speculative bubble there was always widespread consensus that high valuations were justified by each market's special circumstances. Every large market correction seemed to result from popular consensus rather than specific events or news. Shiller says that past bull and bear markets, though often based initially on sound fundamental reasoning, fed upon themselves to go beyond what the facts justified. He challenges the efficient market theory, demonstrating that markets cannot be explained historically by the movement of company earnings or dividends. He concludes that the current U.S. stock market is a speculative bubble awaiting correction. While the book certainly belongs in all academic business collections, public libraries should also purchase it as a counterweight to the plethora of get-rich-quick investment guides.

　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　-Lawrence R. Maxted, Gannon Univ., Erie, PA

From The New York Times Book Review

No one has explored the strange behavior of the American investor in the 1990's with more authority, or better timing, than Robert J. Shiller.

　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　Louis Uchitelle

About Author

Robert J. Shiller is the Stanley B. Resor Professor of Economics at Yale University. He is the recipient of the 2000 Commonfund Prize, awarded for Best Contribution to Endowment Management Research, for Irrational Exuberance. He is also the author of Market Volatility and Macro Markets, which won the 1996 Paul A. Samuelson Award.

Book Dimension :

length: (cm)23.3 　　　 　　　　　 　 width:(cm)15.4

作者简介

Robert J. Shiller is the Stanley B. Resor Professor of Economics at Yale University. He is the recipient of the 2000 Commonfund Prize, awarded for Best Contribution to Endowment Management Research, for Irrational Exuberance. He is also the author of Market Volatility and Macro Markets, which won the 1996 Paul A. Samuelson Award.

读后感

Robert Shiller的《非理性繁荣》由普林斯顿大学出版社出版于2000年3月，令他忧心忡忡的千禧年狂热正处于历史最高点。然而恰恰正是在这个月，没过多久，美股市场突然发生巨震，泡沫破裂，道琼斯指数在短短几周之内由历史最高点11700下跌了近20%，纳斯达克指数在随后一月...  

用了两天的时间读完了《非理性繁荣》。想起本书成书于20世纪末，我不得不去佩服美国的一些经济学家所保有的清醒和冷静。再看看中国发展时间并不长的金融之路，我想，这本书给出了我们对股市更加有益的解读。虽然基于的是美国的具体国情，但是机理的阐述部分还是具有普遍...

席勒（Robert J.Shiller）教授在其在本人授课的耶鲁公开课《经济市场》上推荐的辅助教材之一。这本书因其“成功的预测了2000年和2007年两次金融及房产市场泡沫崩溃“而出名，当然事实上这本书只是幸运的在2000年金融泡沫破灭前刚好发表，显然整个经济泡沫涌起的90年代不断会有...  

读过此书的人建议结合以下两本《伟大的博弈》，《不确定状态下下的判断启发式和偏差》 《非理性繁荣》--抛开现象看本质，对冲基金的必修课本。 《伟大的博弈》--展示美国百年金融发展历史，波澜壮阔。 《不确定状态下下的判断启发式和偏差》--更加微观的揭示人类与生俱来的行为...  

如果让我对我现在所学的金融学说点什么，我只想说学这个专业的学生都是在尝试让自己的理性战胜自己的非理性。 当教科书上告诉我们，亚当斯密爷爷说的，我们都是理性的经济人，我们像趋利避害的草履虫一样。可真的如此吗？希勒教授告诉我们，我们恶性的自大让人类成了非理性的...  

用户评价

房价疯得让人想看书。。。

整个理论架构很简单，从precipitating factors到amplifying mechanism。最后一章提出的措施在我看来显得很无力，人的贪婪是其中最难以跨越的障碍。

围绕市场有效理论进行了系统的反驳，顺便嘲笑了一下贪婪愚蠢健忘的人类

非常inspiring, 学术

看这本书的时候，脑海里一直想起这样一句话：当信息掌握在少数人手里时，获利往往最多；而如果每个人都掌握了信息，那么每个人都能“公正的”分享利益。 而现实中我们有可能让每个人都掌握信息吗？ 当然不可能。 所以，高效市场这种基于每个人都是理性的理论，在现实中又真能有多大作用呢？