Jeffry Frieden, Professor of Government at Harvard University, will speak about his essay on monetary unions.
Thursday, November 17, 20163:30 PMUCLA School of LawRoom 1430Los Angeles, CA 90025
ABOUT THE TALK
The United States has a monetary union that many look to when considering the future of the EU. But how easy was it really to create such a union and what can Europe learn from the US process?
Find out more at this lecture where Frieden will speak about his essay "Lessons for the Euro from Early American Monetary and Financial History."
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
JEFFRY FRIEDEN is Professor of Government at Harvard University. He specializes in the politics of international monetary and financial relations. Frieden is the author of Currency Politics: The Political Economy of Exchange Rate Policy (2015); and (with Menzie Chinn) of Lost Decades: The Making of America's Debt Crisis and the Long Recovery (2011). Frieden is also the author of Global Capitalism: Its Fall and Rise in the Twentieth Century (2006), of Banking on the World: The Politics of American International Finance (1987), of Debt, Development, and Democracy: Modern Political Economy and Latin America, 1965‑1985 (1991), and is the co-author or co-editor of over a dozen other books on related topics. His articles on the politics of international economic issues have appeared in a wide variety of scholarly and general-interest publications.
Cost : Free and Open to the Public
Sponsor(s): Burkle Center for International Relations, Political Science, Economics, Anderson Center for Global Management