Managing the Coming Global Debt Crisis
May 13, 2020 warns that suspending developing economies' payments didn't work in the 1980s and won't work now.
Barry Eichengreen
Barry Eichengreen is Professor of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley, and a former senior policy adviser at the International Monetary Fund. His latest book is The Populist Temptation: Economic Grievance and Political Reaction in the Modern Era.
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Managing the Coming Global Debt Crisis 
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Alice in Libraland Alice in Libraland
Apr 22, 2020 explains how Facebook's questionable foray into the currency domain has launched a flurry of responses.
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The Human-Capital Costs of the Crisis The Human-Capital Costs of the Crisis
Apr 10, 2020 warns that prolonged unemployment today could affect productivity, wages, and growth for years to come.
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Coronanomics 101 Coronanomics 101
Mar 10, 2020 urges policymakers to acknowledge the limits of macroeconomic tools in the face of the pandemic.
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America’s Isolationist Default America’s Isolationist Default
Feb 11, 2020 shows that the multilateralist US of the second half of the twentieth century was an anomaly, not the norm.
