Barry Eichengreen

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Barry Eichengreen ( Barry Julian Eichengreen ; * 1952 in Berkeley , California ) is an American economist and professor of economics and political science at the University of California, Berkeley . His main research areas are international macroeconomics and the history of the financial system.

Barry Eichengreen (2012)

Life

Barry Eichengreen, one of Lucille Eichengreen's two sons , received a Master of Arts degree in history in 1978 and a PhD in economics in 1979 ; each awarded by Yale University . He has been a member of the Center for Economic Policy Research since 1984 and of the National Bureau of Economic Research since 1986 . The economist worked for the International Monetary Fund during the Asian crisis . There he worked on the analysis of practical and theoretical problems of the liberalization of international capital markets. In 1997 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .

Since 2001, Eichengreen is part of the International Advisory Board (International Advisory Board) of the Institute for World Economics in Kiel . As part of the 2004 Copenhagen Consensus Project, he worked on possible solutions to the risk of financial instability.

In an interview from 2015 he said: “Even if Europe's economic data have developed a little better recently, I will stick with it: The introduction of the euro was one of the biggest bad economic decisions of the 20th century. However, it cannot be turned back because the costs of dissolving the euro area are simply too high - even for Germany. "

Fonts

  • Elusive Stability: Essays in the History of International Finance 1919-1939. Cambridge University Press, 1990 ISBN 0-521-36538-4
  • Golden Fetters: The Gold Standard and the Great Depression, 1919-1939. Oxford University Press, 1992, ISBN 0-19-510113-8
  • International Monetary Arrangements for the 21st Century. Brookings Institution Press, 1994, ISBN 0-8157-2276-1
  • Reconstructing Europe's Trade and Payments: The European Payments Union. University of Michigan Press, 1994, ISBN 0-472-10528-0
  • Globalizing Capital: A History of the International Monetary System. Princeton University Press, 1996, ISBN 0-691-02880-X ; 2nd edition, ibid. 2008, ISBN 0-691-13937-7
    • From the gold standard to the EURO. The history of the international monetary system. Wagenbach, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-8031-3603-2
  • European Monetary Unification: Theory, Practice, Analysis. The MIT Press, 1997 ISBN 0-262-05054-4
  • with José De Gregorio, Takatoshi Ito & Charles Wyplosz : An Independent and Accountable IMF. Center for Economic Policy Research, 1999, ISBN 1-898128-45-6
  • Toward A New International Financial Architecture: A Practical Post-Asia Agenda. Institute for International Economics, 1999, ISBN 0-88132-270-9
  • Financial Crises and What to Do About Them. Oxford University Press, 2002, ISBN 0-19-925743-4
  • with Erik Berglöf, Gérard Roland, Guido Tabellini & Charles Wyplosz: Built to Last: A Political Architecture for Europe. CEPR, 2003, ISBN 1-898128-64-2
  • Capital flows and crises. The MIT Press, 2004, ISBN 0-262-55059-8
  • Global Imbalances and the Lessons of Bretton Woods. The MIT Press, 2006, ISBN 0-262-05084-6
  • The European Economy Since 1945: Co-ordinated Capitalism and Beyond. Princeton University Press, 2008, ISBN 0-691-13848-6
  • Exorbitant Privilege , Oxford University Press, New York 2010, ISBN 978-0-19-975378-9
  • Hall of Mirrors: The Great Depression, The Great Recession, and the Uses-and Misuses-of History , Oxford University Press, New York 2015, ISBN 978-0-19-939200-1

literature

  • Mark Blaug (Ed.): Who's who in economics. 4th edition, Elgar, Cheltenham [u. a.] 2003, ISBN 1-84064-992-5 , pp. 227-230

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Michael Mussa, Barry J. Eichengreen, Enrica Detragiache & Giovanni Dell'Ariccia: Capital Account Liberalization: Theoretical and Practical Aspects . IMF Publications, 1998, ISBN 1-55775-777-1 .
  2. ↑ "I would never invest my money in euros", interview with Barry Eichengreen, questions from Dennis Kremer, Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung October 25, 2015, page 25
personal data
SURNAME Eichengreen, Barry
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Eichengreen, Barry Julian (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American economist
DATE OF BIRTH 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Berkeley , California