Robert James "Bob" Shiller is an American Nobel Laureate, 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 since 1980, was vice president of the American Economic Association in 2005, and president of the Eastern Economic Association for 2006?2007. He is also the co?founder and chief economist of the investment management firm MacroMarkets LLC. Shiller is ranked among the 100 most influential economists of the world. Eugene Fama, Lars Peter Hansen and Shiller jointly received the 2013 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, ?for their empirical analysis of asset prices?. 

March 29th, 1946 in Detroit (Age 78)