Harold James

Professor, Princeton University,

Harold James is Professor of History and International Affairs and the Claude and Lore Kelly Professor of European Studies at Princeton University, and Historian at the International Monetary Fund. He was educated at Cambridge University. His books include The German Slump (1986); A German Identity 1770-1990 (1989) International Monetary Cooperation Since Bretton Woods (1996) and Europe Reborn: A History 1914-2000 (2003). More recently he has written The End of Globalization: Lessons from the Great Depression (2001), The Creation and Destruction of Value: The Globalization Cycle (2009), and Making the European Monetary Union (2012). He writes regularly for Project Syndicate.

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