Perry G. Mehrling

Director of Education Programs
Institute for New Economic Thinking

Perry Mehrling is the Director of Education Programs for the Institute for New Economic Thinking.

Mehrling has been a professor of economics at Barnard College since 1987. He teaches courses on the economics of money and banking, the history of money and finance, and the financial dimensions of the U.S. retirement, health, and education systems. He also has held visiting positions at the MIT Sloan School of Management and Boston University.

Mehrling is the author of The New Lombard Street: How the Fed Became the Dealer of Last Resort, which was published by Princeton University Press in 2011, and Fischer Black and the Revolutionary Idea of Finance, which was published by John Wiley & Sons in 2005 and reissued in a revised paperback edition in 2012.

Mehrling received a bachelor’s degree from Harvard University, a master’s degree from the London School of Economics, and a Ph.D. from Harvard University.
 

My Additional Content

Lethal Embrace? A Thought Experiment

At the heart of the Eurocrisis lies a vicious circle where once there was a virtuous one.  Over the last week or two, the FT has been reflecting on the connection between the sovereign debt crisis and the bank crisis, conjoined twins (as George Soros has put it) of the current Eurocrisis....

Maynard's Revenge: A Review

 

 

Below is a revised version of a talk I gave at the New School University, at a conference to launch Lance Taylor's latest book.  The date of the event was...

Insights from Bagehot, for these Trying Times

Here is a talk I gave recently at Wake Forest University.  It is pretty long, but you can page through the video (on the left) by paging through the powerpoint (on the right), and anyway the last twenty...

The Clash of Economic Ideas: A Review

When Paul Krugman paints John Maynard Keynes as a pioneering critic of dominant free-market economics, he exaggerates wildly, both about the rigidity of orthodoxy and about the pioneering character of Keynes...

Mehrling on Soros

 

The text below is the comment I offered on Mr. Soros' opening speech at INET's Berlin Conference April 12, 2012.  The text of Mr. Soros' own speech is here.  ...

My Video Content

The Intellectual Aftershocks of the Crisis - Perry Mehrling
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Professor Perry Mehrling speculates on how the shock of the recent Global Crisis will reverberate in intellectual circles for decades to come.

The Role of Blogs During the Global Crisis - Perry Mehrling
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How blogs and new media became the go-to resource during the global financial collapse and how they might grow in importance over the old media in the future.

Introduction to the Money View Blog - Perry Mehrling
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In this video, Perry Mehrling gives a visual introduction to his INET blog, titled "the Money View."

Economics Curriculum Task Force Reports - Mehrling
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Perry Mehrling, Professor at Barnard College, Columbia University, reporting on the Economics Curriculum Task Force's progress at the Bretton Woods Conference on April 9, 2011.

Economics Curriculum Task Force Reports - Q&A and Discussion
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Robert Skidelsky and Perry Mehrling taking questions from the audience after the report from the Economics Curriculum Task Force at the Bretton Woods Conference on April 9, 2011.

My Grants

Money and Empire: A biography of the Dollar