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The\u00a0Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies\u00a0at Boston University\u00a0is pleased to welcome to its faculty Perry Mehrling<\/a>,\u00a0Professor of International Political Economy. Mehrling, who previously served as a Professor of Economics\u00a0at Barnard College, will teach\u00a0courses on the economics of money and banking, the history of money and finance, and international money.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cI am absolutely delighted to welcome Prof. Mehrling to the Pardee family,” said Pardee School Dean Adil Najam<\/a>. “He not only brings eminent intellect and an outstanding research and teaching portfolio, but he very much embodies the spirit of transdisciplinary enquiry that the Pardee School is built upon. I am confident that he will help shape the future of the Pardee School.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cAs a student of global money, I am excited by the intellectual challenge of understanding our rapidly changing world (how it actually works in practice), and excited as well by the mission of the Pardee School to use our developing knowledge to change the world for the better, not least by spreading that knowledge through our students,” Mehrling said.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Mehrling\u00a0earned an MSc in Econometrics and Mathematical Economics from the London School of Economics and a\u00a0PhD in Economics from Harvard University. He completed his undergraduate degree at Harvard College in the general social science major called Social Studies, which was organized around the great texts of social science: Smith, Weber, Marx, Freud, Durkheim.<\/span><\/p>\n “I bring to this challenge and mission my own training and long experience as an economist, but also an abiding curiosity and eagerness to learn from others with different training and experience,” Mehrling said. “The challenge is large, and no one has all the answers.\u00a0 That is why Pardee\u2019s interdisciplinary strategy is so important, and also so personally compelling.”<\/span><\/p>\n Mehrling 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\u2019Anna, University of Nice, Paris X (Nanterre), and the Sloan School of Management, MIT.<\/span><\/p>\n “For me, financial globalization is the essential fact of our time,” Mehrling said. “My research and teaching is all focused on understanding that fact, and its consequences for human flourishing both positive and negative. \u00a0Toward that end, I am currently writing a book on the rise of the global dollar system, from the end of WWI to the present, and I look forward to bringing that perspective to the classroom starting Fall 2018.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n He also the author of\u00a0<\/span>The New Lombard Street: How the Fed became the dealer of last resort<\/u>\u00a0(Princeton 2011),\u00a0<\/span>Fischer Black and the Revolutionary Idea of Finance<\/u>\u00a0(Wiley 2005), and\u00a0<\/span>The Money Interest and the Public Interest<\/u>\u00a0(Harvard 1997). You can view Mehrling’s recent papers and videos on his website<\/a>, “One Stop Shopping For All Things ‘Money View.’”<\/span><\/p>\n