his wife's money and his wife's parents' money

他妻子的他岳父母的
and they were about to take his house from him,

而他的房子也差点被收掉来还钱
foreclose on his house, and so Yale was forced to buy

最后是耶鲁被迫买下他的房子
his house for him so he could continue to teach.

这样他才能继续教书
So he set a bad precedent for economists at Yale because

而且他还为耶鲁的经济学家建立了坏名声
whenever any economist at Yale has financial advice to give,

因为每当有耶鲁经济学家要给金融建议
someone always quotes Irving Fisher's 1929 line that

总会有人把他1929年的事搬出来说
the economy had reached a permanently high plateau.

在那时的经济已经到达了一个长期性的高点
But anyway, despite all that his theories are well worth studying.

不过怎么都好他的理论仍旧值得我们去学习的
He was famous for a few other things.

他的赫赫有名还有一些其它原因
Shiller is clearly trying to imitate Fisher.

Shiller尝试去模仿Fisher
Fisher wrote a huge number of books,

Fisher写过大量著作