Jeffry Frieden
Professor of International and Public Affairs and Political Science
Personal Details
Focus Areas: Political Economy, International Political Economy, Comparative Political Economy
Jeffry Frieden is Professor of International and Public Affairs and Political Science at Columbia University. He specializes in the politics of international economic relations. Frieden is the author of Global Capitalism: Its Fall and Rise in the Twentieth Century (2007; second updated edition 2020); of Currency Politics: The Political Economy of Exchange Rate Policy (2015); and the co-author (with Menzie Chinn) of Lost Decades: The Making of America's Debt Crisis and the Long Recovery (2012). Frieden is also the author of Debt, Development, and Democracy: Modern Political Economy and Latin America, 1965-1985 (1992), of Banking on the World: The Politics of American International Finance (1987), and the co-author or co-editor of over a dozen other books on related topics. His articles on the politics of international economic issues have appeared in a wide variety of scholarly and general-interest publications.
Education
- BA, Columbia College
- PhD in Political Science, Columbia University
News & Media
In this episode of Chalkboard Politics, the student hosts talk to Jeffry Frieden, professor of international and public affairs and political science, about how Trump's new tariff regime might affect the global economic order.
Professor Jeffry Frieden joins EconoFact Chats to discuss the forces driving a splintering in globalization, and the present and past linkages between domestic politics and international economics.
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