Barry Eichengreen

The Dollar at a Crossroads

Barry Eichengreen is George C. Pardee & Helen N. Pardee Chair and Distinguished Professor of Economics and Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley, where he has taught since 1987. He is a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research (Cambridge, Massachusetts) and Research Fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (London, England). His academic work focuses on, among other things, current and historical exchange rates and capital flows.

Professor Eichengreen is the author of a book published in March of this year, Money Beyond Borders: Global Currencies from Croesus to Crypto, a 2,500-year history of international currencies that reveals new insights about the future of the U.S. dollar—as well as crypto and central bank digital currencies. He is also the author of Exorbitant Privilege: The Rise and Fall of the Dollar and the Future of the International Monetary System (2012).

Professor Eichengreen was a Senior Policy Advisor at the International Monetary Fund. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (class of 1997) and a member of the Bellagio Group (an annual meeting of leading global economists, central bankers and treasury officials). He has held Guggenheim and Fulbright Fellowships and has been a fellow of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (Palo Alto) and the Institute for Advanced Study (Berlin). He is a regular monthly columnist for Project Syndicate (an international media organization publishing a wide range of commentaries and analysis on global topics).

Professor Eichengreen’s other books include The Populist Temptation: Economic Grievance and Political Reaction in the Modern Era (2018), How Global Currencies Work: Past, Present, and Future, with Livia Chitu and Arnaud Mehl (2017), The Korean Economy: From a Miraculous Past to a Sustainable Future (Harvard East Asian Monographs) with Wonhyuk Lim, Yung Chul Park and Dwight H. Perkins (2015), Renminbi Internationalization: Achievements, Prospects, and Challenges, co-edited with Masahiro Kawai (2015), and Hall of Mirrors: The Great Depression, The Great Recession, and the Uses-and Misuses-of History (2015).

Professor Eichengreen is the 2010 recipient of the Schumpeter Prize from the International Schumpeter Society. Professor Eichengreen was named one of Foreign Policy Magazine’s 100 Leading Global Thinkers in 2011. He is a past president of the Economic History Association (2010-11 academic year).

Professor Eichengreen received an A.B. from the University of California, Santa Cruz, and a Ph.D. in economics from Yale University. He is also the recipient of a doctor honoris causa from the American University in Paris.