A tale of two depressions, updated

Barry Eichengreen and I provide an update to our original Vox column here.

Politics in hard times

Back in 2010, as the world turned austerian, people like Adam Posen started to worry about the political consequences. Indeed, so did I.  Alan de Bromhead, Barry Eichengreen and I have a new working paper which looks at the political consequences of economic hard times in the 1920s and 1930s, which you can read here.

Greek precedents

Rui Esteves discusses nineteenth century Greek debt crises here.

‘Tis the Season to be ….

… happy!

So I thought I would share my thoughts on how the Irish are faring on this front.

Kevin O’Rourke on the eurozone crisis

Kevin O’Rourke delivered a hugely insightful talk on the crisis and the global situation at a conference in Dublin last week. His presentation is here.