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...rough baseline from a conversation at the height of last fall's financial panic with Barry Eichengreen, an economist at the University of California, Berkeley, who is an expert on the Great Depression. "I doubt that we'll be able to avoid double-digit unemployment," he told me. "But I'm still confident we can avoid 24% unemployment like...
...nominees, Hariri Professor of International Political Economy Dani Rodrik ’79 was chosen by a selection committee of current and former council board members to receive the first Albert O. Hirschman Prize. “He is an original thinker,” said Barry Eichengreen, who led the selection process and is a professor of economics and political science at the University of California, Berkeley. “He is iconoclastic, but constructive, and I think he has a healthy skepticism about the conventional wisdom thrown up by the various disciplines in the social sciences...
...Treasury Secretary John Snow found a handier target: America 's major trading partners aren't buying their fair share of U.S. goods. "We need Europe to be more of an engine of growth," Snow pleaded. So who should budge? "Ultimately, the solution lies at home," says Professor Barry Eichengreen, a California-based fellow for London 's Centre for Economic Policy Research. America 's households...
...government need to boost saving and rein in spending, Eichengreen insists. If the U.S won't stop living beyond its means, foreign financing for the U.S. 's current account deficit "could dry up." That really would be dismal. Losing The Controls The French government has pledged to support "national champions" in strategic industries vital to the country, such as pharmaceuticals, aircraft manufacturing and... video games? Amid a national debate over industry policy, Paris is close to a deal to give 325 million in annual tax subsidies to France's video game publishers, on top of the 35 million it already...
...Moderated by KSG Dean Joseph S. Nye Jr., the panel also included Stanley Fischer, first deputy managing director of the International Monetary Fund, Allan Meltzer, the former chair to the International Financial Institution Advisory Commission to the U.S. Congress and Brad DeLong and Barry Eichengreen, University of California-Berkeley economists...