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VIII. The Largest Economic Relationship in History (April 14) No single country occupies the attention of international economic policymakers more than China.  While still smaller than the United States, China’s dynamism, reach and unpredictability ensure ...

VII. How Europe Nearly Failed (Apr 7) The crisis that nearly sank the post-war European integration project provides another dramatic demonstration of economic policy cooperation as a morality play.  While European leaders kept insisting that markets shou ...

IV. All the King’s Horses: Picking Up the Pieces After the Global Financial Crisis (Mar 24) After World War II, global leaders tried to bring order to the international economy through the Bretton Woods system of fixed exchange rates and later assembled i ...

IV. Faster Financial Flows and Faster News Cycles (Mar 10) Global news organizations provide much of the context and interpretation of global financial policy, whether through instant analysis of Fed statements or more extensive reporting on economic deve ...

III.  Cheaters, Exchange Rates and Trade (Mar 3) While most countries commit to cooperate on global economic policy, not all motives are pure and suspicions often run rampant.  Currency policy and trade are often the most contentious conversations among e ...

II. The Daily Verdict of Global Markets (Feb 25) On most issues, governments worry mainly about the views of voters and key constituents.  On financial matters, however, policy makers are often far more concerned with the judgment of financial markets, wh ...

I. U.S. Financial Diplomacy in the 21st Century (Feb. 18) This session will review the wide range of topics that crosses the desks of the President’s top economic team, how these issues are coordinated within the U.S. government and how strategies are dev ...

Week 8:  Can Your Idea Change the World? As the capstone class, students will be invited to discuss their vision for problems that need to be solved and ideas for entrepreneurial projects to make a difference. I will work with interested students througho ...

Week 7: Making Your Voice and Opinion Heard While shaping the national discourse used to be the exclusive province of major newspapers and television networks, the democratization of politics affords anyone with a voice and an idea with a chance to shape ...