Jean-Paul Rodrigue
Jean-Paul Rodrigue is a Canadian scholar of transportation geography. He has a PhD in transport geography from the Université de Montréal and has been part of the Department of Global Studies and Geography at Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York, since 1999. His work, L'espace économique mondial: les économies avancées et la mondialisation, won the PricewaterhouseCoopers "Best Business Book" award in 2000. In 2019 the Association of American Geographers granted Rodrigue the Edward L. Ullman Award for outstanding contribution to the field of transport geography.
In 2008, Rodrigue achieved notability with his model of economic bubbles, charting four "phases of a bubble". While the "smart money" has purchased during the earlier "stealth phase", institutional investors begin to buy during "take off". Following media coverage, the general public begins to invest leading to steep rise in prices as "enthusiasm" and then "greed" kick in. "Delusion" precedes the peak.
The chart was widely syndicated during the late-2000s financial crisis.Publications
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