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Lance Lewman

Narrator
(voice)

Gary Becker

Self - University of Chicago

Ben Bernanke

Self - Chair, Federal Reserve System
(archive footage)

Zach Burns

Self - University of Chicago

John Cochrane

Self - University of Chicago

Eugene Fama

Self - University of Chicago

Justin Fox

Self - Harvard Business Review

Jeremy Grantham

Self - GMO, LLC

Alan Greenspan

Self - Former Chair, Federal Reserve System
(archive footage)

John Maynard Keynes

Self - Economist
(archive footage)

Brian Knutson

Self - Stanford University

Jennifer Lerner

Self - Harvard University

Dan Mathisson

Self - Credit Suisse

Joe Mazzella

Self - Knight Capital Group

Leo Melamed

Self - Chicago Mercantile Exchange

Harry Pankau

Self - Chicago Mercantile Exchange Trader

Richard Rosenblatt

Self - New York Stock Exchange

Robert Shiller

Self - Yale University

Michael Moore, eat your heart out.

NOVA Season 37 Episode 9 aired Mar 30, 2010

This program does rings around Michael Moore's economic claptrap. We get solid and rational explanations of how economics works or not. We reach back into history and view 1920 and further back to the price of tulips. Then soon we need to look forward.

We cover many aspects of rational vs. Emotional economics. Some are displayed in the real world. Others are in university tests. The university tests show all kinds of irrational choices based on emotions and unrelated numerical influences.

Pick your camp.

Rationalists know the efficient market hypothesis.

Emotionalists' criticism and control emotions that create bubbles regardless of being part of their markets.

Derivatives explained.

Why the mind can misfire when money is involved?