When: Wednesday, April 10, 2024 | 13:30-14:30

Where: Arts Center Auditorium

Hosted by
Institute for Hellenic Growth and Prosperity (IHGP) and the Economics Society,
Deree – The American College of Greece.

Guest Speaker
Harold James
Claude and Lore Kelly Professor in European Studies
Professor of History and International Affairs
Princeton University

Moderated by
Professor Michalis Psalidopoulos
Chief Consultant and Chair of the Advisory Board
Institute for Hellenic Growth and Prosperity (IHGP)

 The event will be conducted in English.

About the lecture

Princeton Professor Harold James will speak about his latest book “The IMF and the European debt crisis”, published by the IMF in 2024. The book analyses the effects of the global financial crisis of 2008 for the Eurozone and the global economy.

About the lecturer

 Harold James, the Claude and Lore Kelly Professor in European Studies at Princeton University, is Professor of History and International Affairs at the Woodrow Wilson School, and an associate at the Bendheim Center for Finance. His books include a study of the interwar depression in Germany, The German Slump (1986); an analysis of the changing character of national identity in Germany, A German Identity 1770-1990 (1989); International Monetary Cooperation Since Bretton Woods (1996), and The End of Globalization (2001), which is available in 8 languages. He was also co-author of a history of Deutsche Bank (1995), which won the Financial Times Global Business Book Award in 1996, and he wrote The Deutsche Bank and the Nazi Economic War Against the Jews (2001). His most recent books include Family Capitalism, Harvard University Press, 2006; The Creation and Destruction of Value: The Globalization Cycle, Harvard University Press, 2009; Making the European Monetary Union, Harvard University Press, 2012; The Euro and the Battle of Economic Ideas (with Markus K. Brunnermeier and Jean-Pierre Landau), Princeton University Press, 2016; Making A Modern Central Bank: The Bank of England 1979-2003, Cambridge University Press 2020; The War of Words: A Glossary of Globalization, Yale University Press 2021. He is the official historian of the International Monetary Fund. In 2004 he was awarded the Helmut Schmidt Prize for Economic History, and in 2005 the Ludwig Erhard Prize for writing about economics. He writes a monthly column for Project Syndicate.