Willem Buiter

Profile: Full name: Willem Hendrik Buiter Area of interest: Economics, politics, ethics, religion, culture Journals/Organisation: Financial Times Email: willembuiter@btinternet.com | w.buiter@lse.ac.uk Personal website: http://willembuiter.com Website: Blog: FT.com / Willem Buiter’s Maverecon Representation: Leigh Bureau Networks: https://twitter.com/#!/whb1002 | Facebook profile

Biography: About: Education: Yale University: Economics PhD Career: former Chief Economists of the EBRD, former external MPC member at the Bank of England, policy advisor... biography (c/o nber.org - National Bureau of Economic Research) resume (pdf) (nber.org) Current position/role: also writes/written for: Other roles/Main role: Chief Economist, Citigroup Professor of European Political Economy, European Institute, London School of Economics and Political Science (since September 2005) - expertise in: Macroeconomics: the global economy, national economies and sector overviews. Globalization—its technological and political economy determinants. Political economy and economic reform. Public finance & economic policy in all its dimensions—monetary, fiscal and trade. Economic & political integration of Europe; Eastern Europe specialist Other activities: Disclosures: Viewpoints/Insight: Broadcast media: Video: Controversy/Criticism: Awards/Honours: CBE (Commander of the British Empire) for his ‘services to economics’ Scoops: Other:

Books & Debate: Temporary equilibrium and long-run equilibrium OCLC 4641548, 1979 International economic policy coordination OCLC 11574801, 1985 (with Richard C Marston; Centre for Economic Policy Research (Great Britain); National Bureau of Economic Research) Macroeconomic theory and stabilization policy OCLC 19773566, 1989 Budgetary policy, international and intertemporal trade in the global economy OCLC 18780106, 1989 International macroeconomics OCLC 20098767, 1990 Principles of budgetary and financial policy OCLC 20219457, 1990 Interpreting the ERM crisis: country-specific and systemic issues OCLC 38249127, 1998 (with Giancarlo Corsetti; Paolo A Pesenti) (nber.org: publication list Writings and speeches: on policy matters since joining Bank of EnglandMonetary Policy Committee, June 1997 (nber.org) on transition-related issues since becoming Chief Economist at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, June 2000 (nber.org) Latest work: Speaking/Appearances: Debate:

Financial Times: Column name: *ended December 2009* Remit/Info: Economics, politics, ethics, religion, culture Section: Role: blogger Pen-name: Email: Website: FT.com / Willem Buiter’s Maverecon blog Commissioning editor: Day published: Regularity: regular Column format: Average length:

Articles: 2011 The terrible consequences of a eurozone collapse - The case for keeping the show on the road - 8th December

Blogs: 2009 How the FASB aids and abets obfuscation by wonky zombie banks - 3rd April 2009 Please torch my car - 31st March 2009 The G20: expect nothing, hope for the best and prepare for the worst - 29th March 2009 Acceptable racism? - The president of Brasil, Lula da Silva, at a joint press conference on the 27th of March 2009 with Gordon Brown, the UK prime minister, made the following statement: “This crisis was caused by the irrational behaviour of white people with blue eyes, who before the crisis appeared to know everything and now demonstrate that they know nothing.” - 29th March 2009 Moral hazard - lite and strong - I have always been a believer in the screw-up theory of history (and particularly of disasters) rather than of the conspiracy theory of history (disasters) - 26th March 2009 More on robbing the US tax payer and debauching the FDIC and the Fed - 26th March 2009 The new toxic and bad legacy assets programs of the US Treasury: surreptitiously squeezing the tax payer and the Fed until the PPIPs squeak - 24th March 2009 Fiscal dimensions of central banking: the fiscal vacuum at the heart of the Eurosystem and the fiscal abuse by and of the Fed - 21st March 2009 Slaughtering sacred cows: it’s the turn of the unsecured creditors now - 18th March 2009 Should you be able to sell what you do not own? - 16th March 2009 Don’t touch the unsecured creditors! Clobber the tax payer instead - 13th March 2009 To the victor go the spoils: who answers the phone in the US Treasury? - 11th March 2009 All in the family - 8th March 2009 The Fed’s moral hazard maximising strategy - 6th March 2009 Two yawns for the Bank of England today - 5th March 2009 The unfortunate uselessness of most ’state of the art’ academic monetary economics - 3rd March 2009 A tax payer rip-off of surprising boldness - 26th February 2009 Insuring toxic assets: throwing good tax payers’ money after bad private money - 26th February 2009 Regulating the new financial sector - 25th February 2009 How to set up a new ‘good bank’ - 21st February 2009 Uwe Reinhardt on the health of the economy and the economics of health - 19th February 2009 Home loans in the US: the biggest racket since Al Capone? - 18th February 2009 The return of capital controls - 18th February 2009 Posting again in finite time with positive probability - 17th February 2009 No post today - Around February 6, FT.com introduced a change in the template through which I submit my posts to Maverecon. This caused me to lose any vestige of editorial control over the comments submitted to my blog. All I see is what you see - the comments actually published after vetting/filtering by FT.com - 17thFebruary 2009 Save banking, not the bankers or the banks; the case of ING - 13th February 2009 Accounting according to Barclays: declining creditworthiness as a source of profits - 9th February 2009 Good Bank/New Bank vs. Bad Bank: a rare example of a no-brainer - 8th February 2009 Is the Banca d’Italia taking the MIC? Part 3 - 8th February 2009 Fiscal expansions in submerging markets; the case of the USA and the UK - 5th February 2009 YES WE CAN!! have a global depression if we really continue to work at it… - 1st February 2009 The ‘Good Bank’ Solution - 29th January 2009 Is the liquidity management of the Eurosystem balkanising along national lines? - 28th January 2009 When all else fails, blame China - 24th January 2009 The Banca d’Italia and the re-nationalisation of cross-border banking - 24th January 2009 Can the UK government stop the UK banking system going down the snyrting without risking a sovereign debt crisis? - 20th January 2009 Time to take the banks into full public ownership - 16th January 2009 Ten years of the Euro: New Perspectives for Britain - 15th January 2009 Sovereign default in the eurozone and the breakup of the eurozone: Sloppy Thinking 101 - 14th January 2009 Spineless in Washington: Obama and Guantánamo Bay - 13th January 2009 Quantitative and qualitative easing again - 11th January 2009 Lessons from the global credit crisis for social democrats - 6th January 2009 Can the US economy afford a Keynesian stimulus? - 5th January 2009

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