Mehrling in Bloomberg on Rethinking Currency
Perry Mehrling, Professor of International Political Economy at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, was interviewed for a recent article examining whether technology can help solve some of the issues currently facing cash and credit.
Mehrling was interviewed for an October 11, 2018 article in Bloomberg entitled “Rethinking Currency: Finding a Better Way to Run an Economy.“
From the text of the article:
The implication is that the key to making money better is “making sure that people who are making promises are doing so with the intention and ability of fulfilling those promises,” says Perry Mehrling, an economist at Boston University’s Pardee School of Global Studies who teaches an online course about money.
Perry Mehrling is a Professor of International Political Economy at the Pardee School of Global Studies, Boston University, where he teaches courses on the economics of money and banking, the history of money and finance, and international money, the first of these is available online. Perry is the author of The New Lombard Street: How the Fed became the dealer of last resort (Princeton 2011), Fischer Black and the Revolutionary Idea of Finance (Wiley 2005), and The Money Interest and the Public Interest (Harvard 1997). Recent papers and video are available on his website, “one stop shopping for all things ‘money view’”.