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Barry Eichengreen

Barry Eichengreen

Writing for PS since 2003
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Barry Eichengreen, Professor of Economics and Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley, is a former senior policy adviser at the International Monetary Fund. He is the author of many books, including In Defense of Public Debt (Oxford University Press, 2021).

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  1. Can Trump Dump the Dollar?
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    Can Trump Dump the Dollar?

    Jan 10, 2025 Barry Eichengreen argues that while the incoming administration could certainly weaken the greenback, the US would not benefit.

  2. An Economic Requiem for the Biden Administration
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    An Economic Requiem for the Biden Administration

    Dec 16, 2024 Barry Eichengreen assesses the outgoing US president’s record on GDP growth, employment, inflation, trade, and immigration.

  3. The Crisis that Germany Needs
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    The Crisis that Germany Needs

    Dec 10, 2024 Barry Eichengreen argues that the country's economic woes reflect decades-old institutions that are no longer fit for purpose.

  4. The BRICS Currency Charade
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    The BRICS Currency Charade

    Nov 14, 2024 Barry Eichengreen chronicles the latest vain attempt to create an alternative to the dollar-based international monetary system.

  5. Europe’s Wake-Up Call
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    Europe’s Wake-Up Call

    Oct 15, 2024 Barry Eichengreen asks whether European policymakers are prepared to implement the Draghi Report's recommendations.

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    Climate Displacement Is Also a Health Crisis

    Jayasree K. Iyer proposes a four-pronged strategy to ensure that essential medicines reach vulnerable populations.
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    Europe in Trump’s Crosshairs

    Kenneth Rogoff

    US President Donald Trump’s return to the White House represents a grave threat to Europe’s security, economy, and clean-energy transition. The European Union’s top priority must be to find ways to reduce energy prices, even if it means recalibrating some of its green policies.

     urges EU policymakers not to allow the new US administration to distract them from key policy priorities.
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    The New Washington Consensus

    Katharina Pistor

    If a picture is worth a thousand words, the image of Big Tech founders and CEOs filling the front row at Donald Trump’s inauguration is a manifesto. We have just watched private business take over the US government in broad daylight, and history suggests that this won’t end well.

     sees no daylight remaining between US private business and the federal government.
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    Economic Development after the Washington Consensus

    Karim El Aynaoui & Hinh T. Dinh propose a new policy framework adapted to an era that has rendered the prevailing growth model obsolete.
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    Yi Fuxian on China's decision-making, economic prospects, demographic crisis, and more

    Yi Fuxian warns that China's government and mainstream analysts are still underestimating the severity of the country's demographic crisis, identifies some of the gravest policy mistakes Donald Trump's administration is at risk of making vis-a-vis China, explains why China’s middle class will never be strong enough to bring about a democratic transition, and more.
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    Trump at Davos

    Mark Leonard

    Donald Trump’s return marks the start of an anti-Davos age, defined by the lack not only of a global order but also of any desire to create one. The world should expect deeper fragmentation and chaos in the face of unresolved crises and frequent disruptions.

     thinks there will be no return to the postwar global order of universally shared rules and institutions.
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    Manmohan Singh and the Making of the Indian Miracle

    Anne O. Krueger highlights the qualities that enabled the late leader to transform his country and lift its global standing.
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    Confronting the Pandemic’s Toxic Political Legacy

    Jan-Werner Mueller supports calls for countries to carry out independent inquiries into how the COVID-19 crisis was handled.
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    How Trump’s Anti-Globalism Could Backfire

    Harold James thinks the new administration's approach could jeopardize the foreign capital flows that America depends on.

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