George C. Pardee and Helen N. Pardee Chair and Distinguished Professor of Economics and Political Science, University of California, Berkeley
Kurt Viermetz Distinguished Visitor - Class of Fall 2016 and Class of Fall 2022
Barry Eichengreen is George C. Pardee and Helen N. Pardee Chair and Distinguished Professor of Economics and Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley, where he has taught since 1987. Currently also a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research and research fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (London), he was senior policy advisor at the International Monetary Fund in 1997-98.
Eichengreen was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1997 and has received fellowships from the Guggenheim and Fulbright foundations and from the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (Palo Alto) and Institute for Advanced Study (Berlin). From 2004 to 2020, he served as convener of the Bellagio Group of academics and officials and is a past president of the Economic History Association (2010-11).
Author of nearly a dozen books, Eichengreen’s most recent are In Defense of Public Debt, with Asmaa El-Ganainy, Rui Esteves and Kris Mitchener (Oxford, 2021), The Populist Temptation: Economic Grievance and Political Reaction in the Modern Era (Oxford, 2018), and How Global Currencies Work: Past, Present, and Future with Livia Chitu and Arnaud Mehl (Oxford, 2017).
Among Eichengreen’s many accolades are the Economic History Association’s Jonathan R.T. Hughes Prize for Excellence in Teaching (2002) and the University of California at Berkeley Social Science Division’s Distinguished Teaching Award (2004). He is the recipient of a doctor honoris causa from the American University in Paris and the 2010 Schumpeter Prize from the International Schumpeter Society. In 2011, Eichengreen was named one of Foreign Policy Magazine’s 100 Leading Global Thinkers.
20
Sep
22
Airbus Lecture
Quantum Leaps in European Integration
In this talk, Barry Eichengreen explains how significant departures from the status quo ante led to deeper European integration, and asks whether and how Russia’s invasion of Ukraine will prompt a similar reaction.
09
Jan
17
Beyond the Lecture: Barry Eichengreen
This episode of the American Academy in Berlin’s “Beyond the Lecture” features an interview with University of California Berkeley economist Barry Eichengreen. A distinguished academic expert on the international monetary and financial systems, Eichengreen is also a research associat ...
20
Sep
22
Quantum Leaps in European Integration
Europe is at a critical juncture, one in which it must choose between the status quo and a quantum leap toward deeper integration. We have seen such leaps before: the creation the Single Market (1986); the Banking Union and birth of the European Stability Mechanism (2012); and the €800 billion Rec ...
12
Dec
16
The Populist Turn in American Politics
Populism is not a new phenomenon in the United States. In his lecture, economist Barry Eichengreen reviews a century and more of economic populism in America and place the historic November 2016 election of Donald Trump as President of the United States in that context. He analyzes how main ...