Harold James
Profile
Harold James is the Claude and Lore Kelly Professor in European Studies at Princeton University, Professor of History and International Affairs at the Woodrow Wilson School, and an associate at the Bendheim Center for Finance. He is also the official historian of the International Monetary Fund.
His work bridges history, economics, and finance, examining the evolution of globalization, economic crises, and European integration.
Publications and Research
Professor James is the author of numerous influential books on economic and financial history. His early works include The German Slump (1986), a study of Germany’s interwar depression, and A German Identity 1770–1990 (1989), an analysis of national identity.
He later wrote International Monetary Cooperation Since Bretton Woods (1996) and The End of Globalization (2001), available in eight languages.
He co-authored Deutsche Bank (1995), winner of the Financial Times Global Business Book Award (1996), and followed with The Deutsche Bank and the Nazi Economic War Against the Jews (2001).
His more recent works include:
Family Capitalism (Harvard University Press, 2006)
The Creation and Destruction of Value: The Globalization Cycle (HUP, 2009)
Making the European Monetary Union (HUP, 2012)
The Euro and the Battle of Economic Ideas (with Markus K. Brunnermeier and Jean-Pierre Landau, Princeton UP, 2016)
Making a Modern Central Bank: The Bank of England 1979–2003 (Cambridge UP, 2020)
The War of Words: A Glossary of Globalization (Yale UP, 2021)
Awards and Recognition
Helmut Schmidt Prize for Economic History (2004)
Ludwig Erhard Prize for Writing about Economics (2005)
Talks
Professor James regularly speaks at international conferences and institutions on European monetary policy, globalization, and historical perspectives on economic crises.
Education
Ph.D. History – University of Cambridge
Research Topics
Economic History • Modern European History