Perry Mehrling

Professor of International Political Economy

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).

He currently serves on the Academic Council of the Institute for New Economic Thinking (New York) and the Committee on Global Thought (Columbia University), and has served as visiting professor at the Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, University of Nice, Paris X (Nanterre), and the Sloan School of Management, MIT.

He has a BA from Harvard College, an MSc from London School of Economics, and a PhD from Harvard University.

Professor Mehrling’s areas of expertise include money and banking, political economy, history of monetary and financial thought, and global money.

Follow him on Twitter @PMehrling and visit his personal website for a “one-stop shop for all things ‘money view.’”

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