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Harold James

Harold James is Professor of History and International Affairs at Princeton University and Professor of History at the European University Institute, Florence. A specialist on German economic history and on globalization, he is the author of The Creation and Destruction of Value: The Globalization Cycle, Krupp: A History of the Legendary German Firm, and Making the European Monetary Union.


Commentaries by Harold James

  • Newsart for The New Economy of Fealty

    The New Economy of Fealty

    PRINCETON – Since the 2008 financial crisis, most industrial economies have avoided anything like the collapse that occurred during the Grea…

  • Newsart for Margaret Thatcher’s Lessons for Europe

    Margaret Thatcher’s Lessons for Europe

    PRINCETON – Margaret Thatcher was much more respected outside Britain than she was in her own country. In the United States, but also in Cen…

  • Newsart for The Dirge of Cyprus

    The Dirge of Cyprus

    PRINCETON – Europe can choose its own musical accompaniment to its latest crisis. In Berlin, 50 Cent’s “All Things Fall Apart” has just had …

  • Newsart for Why Europe?

    Why Europe?

    PRINCETON – What is the point of Europe? The threat of an explosive disintegration of the eurozone – and with it of the European Union – is …

  • Newsart for Brexit, Voice, and Loyalty

    Brexit, Voice, and Loyalty

    PRINCETON – Albert Hirschman, who died at the end of last year, was a great economist with a gift for producing striking insights by focusin…

  • Newsart for Europe’s Next Great Mistake

    Europe’s Next Great Mistake

    PRINCETON – In constructing Europe’s monetary union, political leaders did not think through all of the implications, which led to major des…

  • Newsart for The Debtor Prisoner’s Dilemma

    The Debtor Prisoner’s Dilemma

    PRINCETON – Any economic slowdown increases debt burdens, whether for households or for states. Today, both are looking for ways to reduce t…

  • Newsart for Europe’s Plan A

    Europe’s Plan A

    FRANKFURT – Europe’s politicians nowadays are desperately looking for someone to blame for the euro crisis. Germany blames France, and vice …

  • Newsart for Why is Obama Winning?

    Why is Obama Winning?

    PRINCETON – James Carville, Bill Clinton’s chief campaign strategist in 1992, famously expressed a bit of established insider wisdom about w…

  • Newsart for Ping-Pong and Political Economy

    Ping-Pong and Political Economy

    PRINCETON – For the last century, economic-policy debate has been locked in orbit around the respective roles and virtues of the state and t…

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Recent comment received by Harold James

  • The New Economy of Fealty

    james durante: James gets a few things exactly right: rising income and wealth inequality continue unabated. For everyone below the 70th percentile of income (roughly) this means trouble, the more you project outwar…

  • The New Economy of Fealty

    John Nick: The malaise = no economic rebound, rising inequality Economic and social relations are shaped on a master - servant model. Let's be clear, this goes beyond the services economy, it's about personal s…

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