Name Perry Mehrling Role Professor | Education Harvard University | |
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Full Name Perry G. Mehrling Born August 14, 1959 (age 64) ( 1959-08-14 ) Books The New Lombard Street: Ho, Fischer Black and the Revol, The money interest and the p, Debt - Crisis - and Recovery Similar People Fischer Black, Allyn Abbott Young, Walter Bagehot | ||
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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.
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- Shanghai meetup with prof perry mehrling part 2
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- Life
- Publications
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Shanghai meetup with prof perry mehrling part 4
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 and the Director of Educational Programs at the Institute for New Economic Thinking, 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.
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.
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. Gale's general equilibrium handbooks on monetary economics acknowledge Merhling's assistance.