Willem Buiter



Profile:
Full name: Willem Hendrik Buiter

Area of interest: Economics, politics, ethics, religion, culture

Journals/Organisation: Financial Times

Email: [mailto:willembuiter@btinternet.com willembuiter@btinternet.com] | [mailto:w.buiter@lse.ac.uk 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:
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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)

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 * 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

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Awards/Honours: CBE (Commander of the British Empire) for his ‘services to economics’

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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)

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Financial Times:
Column name: *ended December 2009*

Remit/Info: Economics, politics, ethics, religion, culture

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Role: blogger

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Website: FT.com / Willem Buiter’s Maverecon blog

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Articles: 2015

 * A way past the insanity over Greece - Default need not trigger a sudden exit from the currency union - 23rd June



Articles: 2014

 * Fed’s bad manners risk offence abroad - Central bank should take account of the external impact of its actions - 5th February



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



News & updates:

 * Woman arrested for stalking prominent economist. The Times, 3rd July 2013



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Links:

 * mavercon archive (original site - blog moved to FT website on 23rd October 2007)