Bibow edits Euroland and the World Economy

Assistant Professor of Economics J rg Bibow has co-edited Euroland and the World Economy: Global Player or Global Drag? (2007, Palgrave Macmillan).

The collection of essays by is divided into four sections, "Euroland on a Collision Course"; "Policy Coordination and Increased integration as Means to Properly Steer Euroland"; "Reforming Euroland's Institutional Framework and Macroeconomic Policy Governance"; and "Prospects and Limits of the Euro as a Global Currency." Bibow wrote the introduction to the Euroland with co-editor Andrea Terzi, and also supplied an essay, "Global imbalances, Bretton Woods II, and Euroland's Role in All This."

According to the publisher, the essays "compellingly question, from a variety of angles, many popular beliefs about the road to virtues of Euroland, providing a comprehensive and fresh framework to address important questions for the future of the euro, from a critique of current macroeconomic policy institutions to proposals for both soft and tougher modifications of euro institutions."

Bibow holds a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Cambridge. Prior to coming to Skidmore, he taught at the University of Cambridge, Hamburg University, and at Franklin College Switzerland. He is a research associate at the Levy Economics Institute in New York and has written on European integration, central banking, financial systems, and the history of economic thought.

More on Euroland and the World Economy at the publisher's Web site.