Professor Harold James, Author at Politeia

Harold James is the Claude and Lore Kelly Professor in European Studies and a Professor of History and International Affairs at Princeton University, specialising in modern German, economic and financial history. He was awarded the Helmut Schmidt Prize for Economic History in 2004 and the Ludwig Erhard Prize in 2005, and was appointed an International Monetary Fund Historian in 2016. His publications include The Euro and the Battle of Economic Ideas (with Markus K. Brunnermeier and Jean-Pierre Landau, Princeton University Press, 2016), Making the European Monetary Union (Harvard University Press, 2012) and The Creation and Destruction of Value: The Globalization Cycle (Harvard University Press, 2009), while his Politeia publications include Crisis Managed: Monetary and Fiscal Frameworks for the Future (2011).

5 posts

Blog

Trumping the Polls

By Professor Harold James
May 12, 2016

This week a Reuters poll showed Donald Trump surging ahead to rival Hillary Clinton in the polls for the US Presidency. 41 per cent of those polled...

Blog

In a bind? The Republicans, the Democrats and the Trump Effect

By Professor Harold James
March 4, 2016

In the wake of this week’s US primaries, Professor Harold James explains why Trumpery could change the Grand Old Party and the entire US System.

Blog

At a Price? Oil and the Economic Future

By Professor Harold James
January 15, 2016

This week’s oil price tumble to $30 a barrel may confirm the gloomy picture of the global economy. But it should also serve as a warning that...

Blog

Goodbye Nation State?

By Professor Harold James
October 23, 2015

Professor Harold James joins the debate from Princeton University. In Migration, the UK and Europe, he suggests that the EU is more than an economic matter: it...

Publication Archive

‘Crisis Managed: Monetary and Fiscal Frameworks for the Future’, by Michael Bordo and Harold James

By Professor Harold James
December 4, 2011

‘Crisis Managed: Monetary and Fiscal Frameworks for the Future’, by Michael Bordo and Harold James December 2011 Press Release

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