Barry Eichengreen

Barry Eichengreen is the George C. Pardee and Helen N. Pardee Professor of Economics and Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of Exorbitant Privilege: The Rise and Fall of the Dollar and the Future of the International Monetary System (Oxford University Press, 2011).


Essays

Economics

A Critique of Pure Gold

| 08.24.11

With Republicans eyeing a return to the gold standard, TNI presents a piece from its archives on tea partiers looking to push the government out of the monetary-policy-making business.

Economics

Mr. Bernanke Goes to War

| 12.16.10

Finance ministers around the world are up in arms over the Fed's latest efforts to jump-start the anemic U.S. economy. The future of globalization hangs in the balance.

Economics

The Last Temptation of Risk

| 03.26.10

Eichengreen explains the origins of the economic crisis.

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May 24, 2013