The New Financial Order

Robert J. Shiller, Co-Winner of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Economics Co-Winner of the 2005 Kulp-Wright Book Award, American Risk and Insurance Association, Inc. Winner of the 2003 Business Book Award, Financial Times Germany/getAbstract Winner of the 2004 Wilmott Book Of The Year Award for General Finance Honorable Mention for the 2003 Award for Best Professional/Scholarly Book in Economics, Association of American Publishers "Shiller's ambition is exhilarating, and gives his work something that most business books lack; a deep sense of how economic ideas might transform people's everyday lives."--The New Yorker "The New Financial Order [is] ... easily accessible and pleasantly utopian."--Washington Post "Certain to be controversial."--Publishers Weekly "It is an understatement to say Shiller's book raises complex political, legal and economic questions. Some will probably never happen. But The New Financial Order is still worth a look. It casts some long-standing social problems in a new light, and it puts some fascinating ideas on the table."--Andrew Cassel, Philadelphia Inquirer "While [his] ideas may sound unfamiliar--even radical--Shiller's reasoned case recalls earlier financial innovations such as stock and futures markets, life and unemployment insurance, and earned income tax credits. The earlier innovations addressed the financial and risk management needs of individuals and societies in the same way Shiller proposes for his concepts."--Library Journal "The good news, on Professor Shiller's analysis, is that it is now possible to conceive and construct trade-able indices that will allow insurers to offer protection against such things as industrial decline and demographically-induced pension shortfalls. If we all knew such insurance was available, we could afford more risks with our choice of career, to the benefit of the economy. Creativity is the lifeblood of capitalist economics. Emotional worries about the risk of unemployment are one of the biggest threats to continued innovation... The data and technology to make a market in such things exists. All that is lacking, Professor Shiller says, is the will to make them a commercial reality."--Jonathan Davis, The Independent "There are financial markets that help us manage fluctuations in corporate profitability and commodity prices. But there are no markets to help manage risks from fluctuations in labor markets and housing markets, even though these have a much bigger impact on most peoples' financial security. How could we design markets to help manage such risks? This challenging problem is examined in Robert J. Shiller's book The New Financial Order."--Hal R. Varian, New York Times "[A] though-provoking book."--Risk "Livelihood insurance. Income-linked loans. Inequality insurance. These are some of the bold and imaginative ideas suggested by Robert Shiller... [W]hile the practical barriers to some of Shiller's suggestions may be immense, there is much that is stimulating in this book. If one were to look 30 years ahead, it would be foolish to bet against at least one of his ideas being widely adopted."--Philip Coggan, Financial Times "[Shiller's] ideas are striking, to put it mildly... Mr. Shiller himself is doubtful that all his ideas will be adopted. But his book, which contains some fascinating history, is at the very least thought-provoking."--The Economist "Unemployment is up. Housing sales are weakening. Oil prices continue to fluctuate, and the stock market remains volatile. There's no doubt we live in risky times, yet our tools for managing risk are limited... How could we design markets to help manage such risks? This challenging problem is examined in Robert J. Shiller's book... Here Mr. Shiller turns to the role of financial institutions in managing risk... It is said that behind every successful m

Robert J. Shiller is the Stanley B. Resor Professor of Economics at Yale University. He is the author of "Macro Markets", which won the first annual Paul A. Samuelson Award of TIAA-CREF, and "Irrational Exuberance" (Princeton), which was a "New York Times" bestseller.

*FrontMatter, pg. i*Contents, pg. vii*Preface, pg. ix*Acknowledgments, pg. xiii*Introduction: The Promise of Economic Security, pg. 1*Part One: Economic Risks in an Advancing World, pg. 19*Part Two: How Science and Technology Create New Opportunities in Finance, pg. 67*Part Three: Six Ideas for a New Financial Order, pg. 105*Part Four: Deploying the New Financial Order, pg. 187*Part Five: The New Financial Order as a Continuation of a Historical Process, pg. 229*Epilogue: A Model of Radical Financial Innovation, pg. 269*Notes, pg. 277*References, pg. 325*Index, pg. 351