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Barry Eichengreen

Barry Eichengreen

Writing for PS since 2003
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Barry Eichengreen is Professor of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley, and a former senior policy adviser at the International Monetary Fund. He is the author of many books, including the forthcoming In Defense of Public Debt. 

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  3. The Big Float
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    The Big Float

    Jun 11, 2021 Barry Eichengreen reviews two recent books on the international monetary system since the US abandoned the gold standard in 1971.

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    Are Central Banks to Blame for Rising Inequality?

    Kenneth Rogoff

    The view that central-bank interest-rate policy can and should be the main driving force behind greater income equality is stupefyingly naive, no matter how often it is stated. Central banks can do more to address the inequality problem, but they cannot do everything.

     argues that monetary policy did not cause, and largely cannot mitigate, increasing income and wealth disparities.
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