Jean-Paul Rodrigue
Jean-Paul Rodrigue (born July 20, 1967) is a Canadian scholar of
transportation geography. He has a PhD in transport geography from the
Université de Montréal (1994) and has been part of the Department of Maritime Business Administration at
Texas A&M University in
Galveston since 2024. Between 1999 and 2023, he was part of the Department of Global Studies and Geography at
Hofstra University in
Hempstead, New York. His work, '''', (''The Global Economic Space: Advanced Economies and Globalization'') won the
PricewaterhouseCoopers "Best Business Book" award in 2000. In 2019, the
American Association of 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
2007–2008 financial crisis.
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