Barry Eichengreen

Barry Eichengreen is Professor of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley. He is a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and a Research Fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research in London. His books include Hall of Mirrors: The Great Depression,The Great Recession, and the Uses-and Misuses-of History (2015),How Global Currencies Work: Past, Present, and Future, with Livia Chitu and Arnaud Mehl (2017), The Populist Temptation: Economic Grievance and Political Reaction in the Modern Era (2018), and most recently, with Asmaa El-Ganainy, Rui Esteves and Kris James Mitchener, In Defense of Public Debt (2021).