Perry Mehrling
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Perry G. Mehrling | |
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| Professor of Economics at Barnard College/Columbia university | |
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| Born | Perry G. Mehrling August 14, 1959 |
Perry G. Mehrling (born August 14, 1959) is professor of economics at Barnard College in New York City. He specializes in the study of financial theory within the history of economics.
Life
Perry Gandhi Mehrling received his A.B (magna cum laude) and his Ph.D. from Harvard University and his M.Sc. from the London School of Economics. Mehrling was valedictorian of the class of 1977 at Boston Latin School. He is currently a Professor in the Economics Department at Barnard College/Columbia University[1] and the Director of Educational Programs at the Institute for New Economic Thinking,[2] a global not for profit organization dedicated to changing the way economics is currently taught. He teaches a "Economics of Money and Banking" MOOC on the Coursera website.[3]
Publications
Mehrling is the author of The Money Interest and the Public Interest: American Monetary Thought, 1920-1970 as well as a recent biography of Fischer Black, Fischer Black and the Revolutionary Idea of Finance.[4]
- The New Lombard Street. How the Fed Became a Dealer of Last Resort. Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ 2011, Linen: ISBN 978-0-691-14398-9, e-book: ISBN 978-1-4008-3626-0
He wrote his thesis under Meghnad Desai and Douglas Gale at the London School of Economics. It was published by the University of Chicago's Journal of Political Economy. It synthesized differential game-theoretic models of capitalism, due to Kelvin Lancaster and Richard M. Goodwin.[5] Gale's general equilibrium handbooks on monetary economics acknowledge Merhling's assistance.[6]
References
- ^ "Perry Mehrling". Barnard College. Retrieved 2013-09-24.
- ^ "Team". Institute for New Economic Thinking. Retrieved 2013-09-24.
- ^ "Perry G Mehrling". Coursera. Retrieved 2013-09-24.
- ^ When the Everyday Was Revolutionary
- ^ Mehrling, Perry G. (December 1986). "A classical model of the class struggle: A game-theoretic approach". The Journal of Political Economy. 94 (6). University of Chicago: 1280–1303. doi:10.1086/261433. JSTOR 1833099.
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{{cite book}}: Invalid|ref=harv(help)- Gale, Douglas (1983). Money: in disequilibrium. Cambridge economic handbooks. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press. p. 382. ISBN 978-0-521-26917-9.
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- Gale, Douglas (1983). Money: in disequilibrium. Cambridge economic handbooks. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press. p. 382. ISBN 978-0-521-26917-9.
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