Money Beyond Borders: Global Currencies From Croesus to Crypto

Barry Eichengreen is George C. Pardee & Helen N. Pardee chair and distinguished professor of Economics and Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley, where he has taught since 1987. He is a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research and research fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research. In 1997-98 he was senior policy advisor at the International Monetary Fund. His books include “The Populist Temptation: Economic Grievance and Political Reaction in the Modern Era” (2018), “How Global Currencies Work: Past, Present, and Future”, with Livia Chitu and Arnaud Mehl, (2017), “Hall of Mirrors: The Great Depression, The Great Recession, and the Uses-and Misuses-of History”, (2015), and “Golden Fetters: The Gold Standard and the Great Depression, 1919-1939″(1992).

Karthik Sankaran is a senior research fellow in geoeconomics in the Global South program at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft. He was originally trained as a Modern European Historian but instead pursued careers in journalism and then finance as a strategist and as a trader/portfolio manager. He was engaged primarily with foreign exchange and fixed income in emerging markets at a variety of institutions on the sell-side and the buy-side. In this capacity, he saw the ripples of the Asian financial crisis of 1997 into Russia and Latin America, and then the Great Financial Crisis of 2008, and the subsequent Eurozone crisis of 2011. He then joined Eurasia Group as director, Global Strategy, where he worked with country and regional teams to chart feedback loops among political and geopolitical risks, macroeconomics, and market responses.