Robert Z. Aliber

Robert Z. Aliber (1930–2025) was an economist who taught international economics and finance at the University of Chicago's business school for about 40 years from 1965 and helped create its Center for Studies in International Finance. He developed a theory linking a currency's strength to whether a country's companies invest at home or abroad, and he was credited with foreseeing the U.S. housing bubble and Iceland's 2008 collapse. He carried Charles Kindleberger's Manias, Panics, and Crashes through later editions.