Richard S. Grossman

I am Andrews Professor of Economics at Wesleyan University and a Visiting Scholar at the Institute for Quantitative Social Science at Harvard University.  I am a Research Fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research in London and a Research Network Fellow of CESifo in Munich.  I write about economics, banking and financial history, and economic policy.  My most recent book is  WRONG: Nine Economic Policy Failures and What we Can Learn from Them, which was published by Oxford University Press in 2013.  My book Unsettled Account: The Evolution of Banking in the in the Industrialized World since 1800 was published by Princeton University Press in 2010.

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