About
Professor of Government at Harvard University. I specialize in the politics of international economic relations. I am the author of Global Capitalism: Its Rise and Fall in the Twentieth Century and its Stumbles in the Twenty First (2007, updated second edition 2020); of Currency Politics: The Political Economy of Exchange Rate Policy (2015); and (with Menzie Chinn) of Lost Decades: The Making of America's Debt Crisis and the Long Recovery (2011). I am also the author of Banking on the World: The Politics of American International Finance (1987), of Debt, Development, and Democracy: Modern Political Economy and Latin America, 1965‑1985 (1991), and the co-author or co-editor of over a dozen other books on related topics. My articles on the politics of international economic issues have appeared in a wide variety of scholarly and general-interest publications. See
https://scholar.harvard.edu/jfrieden for a selection.
Featured Work
Global Capitalism: Its Fall and Rise in the Twentieth Century and its Stumbles in the Twenty-First
Publisher's description:
"In 1900 international trade reached unprecedented levels and the world's economies were more open to one another than ever before. Then as now, many people considered globalization to be inevitable and irreversible. Yet the entire edifice collapsed in a few months in 1914.
"Globalization is a choice, not a fact. It is a result of policy decisions and the politics that shape them. Jeffry A. Frieden's insightful history explores the golden age of globalization during the early years of the century, its swift collapse in the crises of 1914-45, the divisions of the Cold War world, and the turn again toward global integration at the end of the century. His history is full of character and event, as entertaining as it is enlightening."
Originally published in 2006, a second updated edition was published in 2020.
