Macro Musings with David Beckworth

Jeffry Frieden is a professor of government at Harvard University where he specializes in the politics of international monetary and financial relations. Jeff is the author of many articles and books including *Currency Politics: The Political Economy of Exchange Rate Policy* and *Lost Decades: The Making of America’s Debt Crisis and the Long Recovery*. He joins the show today to talk about some of his work. David and Jeff also explore what has led to the recent rise in populism across the nation, the difficulty of interregional labor mobility and its economic effects, and current issues within the Eurozone.

Transcript for the episode: https://www.mercatus.org/bridge/podcasts/07012019/rise-populism-labor-mobility-and-eurozone

Jeff’s Twitter: @jafrieden

Jeff’s Harvard profile: https://scholar.harvard.edu/jfrieden

Related Links:

*Currency Politics: The Political Economy of Exchange Rate Policy* by Jeffry Frieden

https://press.princeton.edu/titles/10364.html

*Lost Decades: The Making of America’s Debt Crisis and the Long Recovery* by Jeffry Frieden

https://scholar.harvard.edu/jfrieden/publications/lost-decades-making-americas-debt-crisis-and-long-recovery

*Populism in Place: The Economic Geography of the Globalization Backlash* by J. Lawrence Broz, Jeffry Frieden, and Stephen Weymouth

https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/jfrieden/files/populism_in_place_v1.3_0.pdf

*Wall Street is Desperate for Wonks Who Can Explain the Rise of Populism* by Craig Torres

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-06-04/wall-street-is-desperate-for-wonks-who-can-explain-the-rise-of-populism

*Why Has Regional Income Convergence in the U.S. Declined?* by Peter Ganong and Daniel Shoag

https://www.nber.org/papers/w23609

*Going to Extremes: Politics After Financial Crises, 1870-2014* by Manuel Funke, Moritz Schularick, and Christoph Trebesch

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2688897

David’s blog: macromarketmusings.blogspot.com
David’s Twitter: @DavidBeckworth