1. Finance and insurance as strong forces in our economy and
society Financial Markets (ECON 252) Professor Shiller provides
a description of the course, financial markets, including the
administrative details and the issues discussed in each lecture.
He discusses briefly the importance of studying finance and each
key topic. Lecture topics include: behavioral finance, financial
technology, financial instruments, commercial banking,
investment banking, financial markets and institutions, real
estate, regulation, monetary policy, and the democratization of
finance. Complete training materials are in the Open Yale
Courses Web site: open.yale.edu This course was taken in spring
2008. Financial Markets (ECON 252) Behavioral Finance is a
relatively new revolution in the financing of that information
regarding the funding of all the social sciences. New Decision-
making models include psychology and sociology, among other
disciplines, the economic and financial phenomena, such as to
explain erratic stock price varia