LECTURES IN GOVERNMENT AND ECONOMICS No. 34
On July 10, 2026, the Society for the Analysis of Government and Economics (SAGE) hosted an online lecture entitled "Are We Near the End of the U.S. Dollar Era?" This lecture was presented by Barry Eichengreen, George C. Pardee & Helen N. Pardee Chair and Distinguished Professor of Economics and Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley. The webinar represented the thirty-fourth installment in SAGE's Lectures in Government and Economics Series.
Topic: Are We Near the End of the U.S. Dollar Era?
Lecture: Barry Eichengreen, George C. Pardee & Helen N. Pardee Chair and Distinguished Professor of Economics and Political Science at University of California, Berkeley
Moderator: David Daokui Li, Co-President of the Society for the Analysis of Government and Economics (SAGE) and Director of the Academic Center for Chinese Economic Practice and Thinking (ACCEPT)
Organizers: Society for the Analysis of Government and Economics (SAGE) and Academic Center for Chinese Economic Practice and Thinking (ACCEPT)
Time: July 10 (Friday), 9:00 - 10:30
Video Replay: https://www.51xueshuo.com/#/viewLive?planCode=2074824123527335936
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Speaker Bio:
Barry Eichengreen is George C. Pardee & Helen N. Pardee Chair and Distinguished Professor of Economics and Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley, where he has taught since 1987. He is a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research (Cambridge, Massachusetts) and Research Fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (London, England). In 1997-98 he was Senior Policy Advisor at the International Monetary Fund. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (class of 1997). He has held Guggenheim and Fulbright Fellowships and has been a fellow of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (Palo Alto) and the Institute for Advanced Study (Berlin). He is a regular monthly columnist for Project Syndicate. His books include Money Beyond Borders: Global Currencies from Croesus to Crypto (2026), The Populist Temptation: Economic Grievance and Political Reaction in the Modern Era (2018), How Global Currencies Work: Past, Present, and Future, with Livia Chitu and Arnaud Mehl, (2017), The Korean Economy: From a Miraculous Past to a Sustainable Future (Harvard East Asian Monographs) with Wonhyuk Lim, Yung Chul Park and Dwight H. Perkins, (2015), Renminbi Internationalization: Achievements, Prospects, and Challenges, co-edited with Masahiro Kawai, (2015), Hall of Mirrors: The Great Depression, The Great Recession, and the Uses-and Misuses-of History, (2015). He was awarded the Economic History Association's Jonathan R.T. Hughes Prize for Excellence in Teaching in 2002 and the University of California at Berkeley Social Science Division's Distinguished Teaching Award in 2004. He is also the recipient of a doctor honoris causa from the American University in Paris.