Foundations & Overviews

A topic within Investment Theory, itself one of 11 topics in that field and part of Finance & Investing.

Reading on Foundations & Overviews

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Series2011

Financial Markets (2011) with Robert Shiller

Robert Shiller (YaleCourses)

Treats finance as risk-management institutions rather than a set of pricing formulae, and argues from the inside that markets are neither efficient nor irrational but shaped by human psychology and the rules built around it.

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Series2011

Financial Theory with John Geanakoplos

John Geanakoplos (YaleCourses)

Argues that collateral and leverage, not interest rates, drive asset prices and crises, and derives the leverage cycle from general equilibrium rather than from behavioural assumptions.

link checked 17 Sept 2026

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Reading on Foundations & Overviews

Financial Markets (2011) with Robert Shiller

Financial Theory with John Geanakoplos

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