Journalism and Other Media

"A Place for Politics," Finance and Development March 2024. Also here.

 

Review of Matthew Klein and Michael Pettis, Trade Wars Are Class Wars in Journal of Economic Literature September 2022

 

(with Chase Foster) "Why the economy still plays a major role in shaping support for European integration," EUROPP European Politics and Policy blog, March 3, 2021

 

The Political Economy of Economic Policy,” Finance and Development, Summer 2020.Video response to questions from readers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=382BTVQyfnA\

 

(with Jake Schneider) “Will the virus kill global capitalism?” October 10, 2020.

An interview with GrowthPolicy.org on Globalization, the Rise of Populism, and the Future of Democracy, January 2020.

(with J. Lawrence Broz and Stephen Weymouth) "The Politics of Manufacturing Decline" on Econofact.org July 30, 2019.

(with Joel Trachtman) "U.S. Trade Policy: Going it Alone vs. Abiding by the World Trade Organization," on Econofact.org June 15, 2018.

"A plan to save the euro, VoxEU, May 23, 2018. [A PDF may be found here.]

(with Chase Foster) "Europeans have lost faith in their governments and institutions. Why?" Monkey Cage, 22 September 2017.

"Globalization: Past, Present, and Future," Presentation to the National Security Seminar, U.S. Army War College, June 2017.

Currency Politics in the Developing World,” Harvard International Review 38, No. 2 (Spring 2017)

"A Walk Through an Open World Economy in Crisis," BRINK, February 2017.

"The United States," The World in 2017(Nomisma e-book).

"Lessons for the Euro from Early American Monetary and Financial History," Bruegel Essay and Lecture Series, May 2016. Video of the talk can be found here. Portuguese translation can be found here.

(with Mark Copelovitch and Stefanie Walter) "The euro zone is in crisis. Here are the four most important lessons to take away." Monkey Cage, 31 March 2016.

"Mad About Politics? Follow the Money [Audio]," The McAlvany Weekly Commentary, 23 March 2016. For a transcript from the co-hosts, see here.

"Political and Economic Origins of the Crisis in the Eurozone," The Political Economist XI, no. 2 (Fall 2015): 3-5. Also featuring essays from Barry Eichengreen and Stefanie Walter.

Guest post on Econobrowser, "What Europeans think about Europe in the aftermath of the crisis," 15 July 2015.

"Dangers from currency-debt nexus: Overcoming 'original sin' can rebound on debtors." OMFIF Bulletin, April 2015.

Guest post on Econbrowser, “Currency politics: Understanding the euro,” 24 March 2015.

Guest post on Econbrowser, “Currency Politics, Debt Politics,” 20 March 2015.

(with Menzie Chinn) What to expect from the American economy in 2014, in Politico magazine, January 02, 2014.

(with Michael Pettis, Dani Rodrik, and Ernesto Zedillo), “Don’t count on enhanced global governance,” VoxEU July 26, 2012.

(with Menzie Chinn) “Better Living Through Inflation,” Milken Institute Review Third Quarter 2012.

Press reaction:

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"Preventing Another Lost Decade," blogpost at EUROPP - European Politics and Policy, London School of Economics July 3, 2012.

(with Menzie Chinn), “How to Save the Global Economy: Whip Up Inflation. Now.” Foreign Policy January 2012.

Éric Desrosiers, "Inégaux devant la crise... et la reprise," Le Devoir (Montréal), November 18, 2011 (in French).

"Europe's Lehman Moment," Reuters Sept. 16, 2011.

(with Menzie Chinn), "The Downgrading of a Debtor Nation," New York Times August 9, 2011.

Contributions to the New York Times “Room for Debate”:

"Was the Financial Crisis Avoidable?" New York Times, January 30, 2011.

The Costs of Rescuing Ireland,” New York Times, November 18, 2010.

Why Wall Street Reforms Have Stalled,” New York Times, September 11, 2009.

Nationalizing the Bank Problem,” New York Times, January 22, 2009.

"The political economy of rebalancing," in Rebalancing the Global Economy: A Primer for Policymaking, Simon Evenett and Bernard Hoekman, editors (World Bank and VoxEU,2010).

Rehabilitating macroeconomic sanity,” in Jobs, industry and opportunity: Growth strategies after the crisis (London: Policy Network, 2010).

The crisis and beyond: Prospects for international economic cooperation,” Policy Paper No. 5, Politics, Economics and Global Governance: The European Dimensions (London, December 2009).

After the crisis: Domestic politics and the challenge of rebalancing,” Politics, Economics and Global Governance: The European Dimensions Policy Brief No. 9 (London, December 2009).

"Global trade in the aftermath of the global crisis," in The Great Trade Collapse: Causes, Consequences and Prospects. A VoxEU.org Publication, Ed. Richard Baldwin (London: Centre for Economic Policy Research, 2009).

"Global Imbalances, National Rebalancing, and the Political Economy of Recovery," Council on Foreign Relations Center for Geoeconomic Studies Working Paper, October 2009.

(with Menzie Chinn), "Reflections on the Causes and Consequences of the Debt Crisis of 2008," La Follette Policy Report 19, No. 1 (Fall 2009).

"Jeffry Frieden habla sobre la crisis actual," Revista de la Fundación Juan March, 386 (July-September 2009) (in Spanish).

"Avoiding the worst: International economic cooperation and domestic politics," VoxEU Global Crisis Debate, February 2, 2009.

"Os Estados Unidos em seus dias de América Latina," Veja (Brazil) December 31, 2008.

[English translation: "The United States in its Latin American days"] December 31, 2008.

Global inequality: Trends and remedies,Harvard College Economics Review (Spring 2007).

"Will Global Capitalism Fall Again?" Bruegel Essay and Lecture Series. Brussels, June 2006.