Barry Eichengreen

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

Life

Barry Eichengreen, one of the two sons of Lucille Eichengreen was awarded in 1978 the Master of Arts in Historical Sciences and in 1979 a Ph.D. in economics from Yale University, respectively. He has been a member since 1984 of the Centre for Economic Policy Research, and since 1986 a member of the National Bureau of Economic Research. The economist was active during the Asian crisis for the International Monetary Fund. There he worked on the analysis of practical and theoretical problems of liberalization of international capital markets. Since 2001, Eichengreen part of the international advisory board ( International Advisory Board) of the Institute for World Economics in Kiel. In the framework of the Copenhagen Consensus project in 2004, he worked on possible solutions to the risk of financial instability.

Publications

  • 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
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