Perry G. Mehrling is professor of economics at Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University. He was professor of economics at Barnard College in New York City for 30 years. There, he taught courses on the economics of money and banking, the history of money and finance, and the financial dimensions of the U.S. retirement, health, and education systems. His most recent book is The New Lombard Street: How the Fed became the dealer of last resort (Princeton 2011). His best-known book Fischer Black and the Revolutionary Idea of Finance (Wiley 2005, 2012) has recently been released in a revised paperback edition. Currently, Prof. Mehrling directs the educational initiatives of the Institute for New Economic Thinking, one of which is his course Economics of Money and Banking, available on Coursera at www.coursera.org/course/money.
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The Rise of the Global Dollar System
Why does the apparently prescient and correct “key currency” view remain an embattled minority view?
Exorbitant Privilege? On the Rise (and Rise) of the Global Dollar System
Things are going to break and central banks are going to have to respond, but the mental frame that most people will be using is not well suited for understanding how the world now works
Bernanke v. Kindleberger: Which Credit Channel?
In the papers of economist Charles Kindleberger, Perry Mehrling found notes on the paper that won Ben Bernanke his Nobel Prize.
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YSI Conference on Debt Sustainability
Discussions on the key conceptual and policy themes for sovereign debt sustainability with a view to proposing possible policy reforms.
Meet the Man Who Helped Make the Dollar the World’s Currency
Perry Mehrling’s new book traces the rise of the dollar through the life and career of influential economist Charles Kindleberger
5th Annual UNCTAD-YSI Summer School Challenges and Opportunities of a New International Economic Order
The 5th UNCTAD YSI Summer School provides an opportunity to explore the Challenges and Opportunities of a New International Economic Order. The school will bring together UNCTAD experts, academics, diplomats, and young scholars from across the globe for lively and stimulating intellectual debates.
YSI North America Convening
On February 22-24, 2019, the Young Scholars Initiative (YSI) will host its North America Convening in Los Angeles.