Jeffry Frieden on the Rise of Populism, Labor Mobility, and the Eurozone

Published: July 1, 2019, 4:30 a.m.

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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\\u2019s 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.

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Transcript for the episode:\\xa0https://www.mercatus.org/bridge/podcasts/07012019/rise-populism-labor-mobility-and-eurozone

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Jeff\\u2019s Twitter: @jafrieden

Jeff\\u2019s Harvard profile: https://scholar.harvard.edu/jfrieden

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Related Links:

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

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

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*Lost Decades: The Making of America\\u2019s Debt Crisis and the Long Recovery* by Jeffry Frieden

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

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*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

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*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

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

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

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*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

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David\\u2019s blog: macromarketmusings.blogspot.com
David\\u2019s Twitter: @
DavidBeckworth

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