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April 7, 2010

Economists discuss psychological and neurobiological aspects of nation's mortgage crisis.

Yale University economist Robert Shiller, who predicted the housing market crash in 2006; Caltech economist Dr. Colin Camerer, one of the founders of a new field called neuroeconomics that studies brain scans to understand economic decision making; and economist Nancy Lutz, program director for economics at NSF discuss nation's mortgage crisis.

Credit: National Science Foundation


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