Biography

Harold James, holder of the Claude and Lore Kelly Chair in European Studies at Princeton University, is Professor of History and International Affairs at the School of Public and International Affairs (SPIA) and an associate of the Bendheim Center for Finance. His books include a study of the German depression during the interwar period, The German Slump (1986); International Monetary Cooperation Since Bretton Woods (1996); and The End of Globalization (2001). He is also co-author of the Deutsche Bank history (1995), which won the Financial Times Global Business Book Award in 1996. He has received the Helmut Schmidt and Ludwig Erhard prizes. His most recent publications include: The Euro and the Battle of Economic Ideas (with Markus K. Brunnermeier and Jean-Pierre Landau, Princeton University Press, 2016); Making A Modern Central Bank: The Bank of England 1979–2003 (Cambridge University Press, 2020); The War of Words: A Glossary of Globalization (Yale University Press, 2021); Seven Crashes: The Economic Crises That Shaped Globalization (Yale University Press, 2023); and The IMF and the European Debt Crisis (2024). Seven Crashes has also been published in Chinese, Korean, and German, and was selected as a finalist for the 2024 Lionel Gelber Prize. He writes a monthly column for Project Syndicate.