Tag: Yale University

  • Robert Shiller on Income Inequality

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    Robert Shiller is an American economist, academic, and best-selling author. He currently serves as a Sterling Professor of Economics at Yale University and is a fellow at the Yale School of Management‘s International Center for Finance.  Shiller has been a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) since 1980, was Vice President of the American Economic Association in 2005, and President of the Eastern…

  • Earth’s “Deep Time” to Predict Future Effects of Climate Change

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    The Science Codex blog reports on a new study that highlights how information from past episodes of rapid change in the Earth’s history provide a valuable tool in predicting how climate change will affect our ecosystems: “Climate change and other human influences are altering Earth’s living systems in big ways, such as changes in growing seasons…