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Longrunonomics vs. Shortrunonomics

Harvard Business Review

Shiller had already circulated his devastating demonstration that asset prices were much too volatile to be explained by fundamentals, and the 1987 market crash had provided an object lesson in panic. Behavioral finance stayed on the margins. It doesn't offer much hope, though, for clear guidelines to macroeconomic decisionmaking.