Carmen Reinhart

Dennis Weatherstone Senior Fellow
Peterson Institute for International Economics

Carmen M. Reinhart is the Dennis Weatherstone Senior Fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics. She was formerly a professor of economics and the director of the Center for International Economics at the University of Maryland. She is also a member of both the Council on Foreign Relations and the Association for the Study of the Cuban Economy; as well as a research fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research.

Reinhart recently co-authored a book with INET advisory board member Kenneth Rogoff, called This Time is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly, which analyzed the cyclical nature of financial periods of crisis and growth.

Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff were profiled in a recent New York Times story, titled Economists Who Did Their Homework (800 Years of it.)

Reinhart recently prepared a paper for the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City Jackson Hole Symposium, titled "After the Fall." The PDF can be found here.

 

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Throughout history, rich and poor countries alike have been lending, borrowing, crashing--and recovering--their way through an extraordinary range of financial crises. Each time, the experts have chimed, "this time is different"--claiming that the old rules of valuation no longer apply and that...