Lectures in Government and Economics | The Role of Government and Market in the Evolution of the International Monetary System
Lectures in Government and Economics No. 23
On December 11, 2025, the Society for the Analysis of Government and Economics (SAGE) will host an online lecture entitled "The Role of Government and Market in the Evolution of the International Monetary System." This lecture will be presented by Kenneth Rogoff, Maurits C. Boas Professor at Harvard University and Former Chief Economist at the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The webinar represents the twenty-third installment in SAGE's Lectures in Government and Economics Series.
Topic: The Role of Government and Market in the Evolution of the International Monetary System
Lecturer: Kenneth Rogoff, Maurits C. Boas Professor at Harvard University and Former Chief Economist at the International Monetary Fund (IMF)
Moderator: David Daokui Li, Director of the Academic Center for Chinese Economic Practice and Thinking (ACCEPT) at Tsinghua University and Co-President of the Society for the Analysis of Government and Economics (SAGE)
Organizers: Society for the Analysis of Government and Economics (SAGE) and Academic Center for Chinese Economic Practice and Thinking (ACCEPT)
Time: December 11 (Thursday), 20:30 - 22:00
Language: English
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Speaker Bio:
Kenneth Rogoff is Maurits C. Boas Professor at Harvard University, and former chief economist at the IMF. His influential 2009 book with Carmen Reinhart, This Time Is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly, shows the remarkable quantitative similarities across time and countries in the roots and aftermath of debt and financial crises. Rogoff is also known for his pioneering work on central bank independence, and on exchange rates. His monthly syndicated column on global economic issues is published in over 50 countries. His 2025 Our Dollar, Your Problem: An Insider’s View of Seven Turbulent Decades of Global Finance explores the post-war rise of the dollar, the challenges ahead from crypto and the Chinese yuan, and argues that the period of reliably low interest rates, inflation and exchange rate volatility has likely come to an end. His other notable books include the seminal Foundations of International Macroeconomics (1996, with Maurice Obstfeld); The Curse of Cash (2016); and Sovereign Debt: A Guide for Economists and Practitioners (2019).
Rogoff is an elected member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has long ranked among the top dozen most cited economists, and is an international grandmaster of chess.
