Professor of International Economics Mark Blyth co-authored an essay for the Financial Times on bird metaphors for central bankers.
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The William R. Rhodes Center for International Economics and Finance
Mark Blyth
Director, The William R. Rhodes Center for International Economics and Finance, The William R. Rhodes ’57 Professor of International Economics, Professor of Political Science and International and Public Affairs
Research Interests
International and comparative political economy, banks and finance, Europe, monetary policy
Biography
Mark Blyth is a political economist whose research focuses upon how uncertainty and randomness impact complex systems, particularly economic systems, and why people continue to believe stupid economic ideas despite buckets of evidence to the contrary. He is the author of several books, including Great Transformations: Economic Ideas and Institutional Change in the Twentieth Century (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2002, Austerity: The History of a Dangerous Idea (Oxford University Press 2013, and The Future of the Euro (with Matthias Matthijs) (Oxford University Press 2015).
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Mark Blyth comments for Bloomberg, “We may be in a world of financial dominance. I don’t know, but it sure smells that way.”
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Mark Blyth discusses falling European bank shares on RTÉ's The Business podcast.
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In an interview with the EU Observer, Director of the Rhodes Center Mark Blyth discusses the European Union's economy.
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Professor of Economics Mark Blyth discusses the overturning of UK Prime Minister Liz Truss's recent economic policies for Vox.
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Mark Blyth comments for Vox, “The pound falling in value is the market’s response to realizing that the risk inherent in the asset is much higher than hitherto appreciated thanks to Trussonomics."
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