About the Author

Richard N. Cooper is Maurits C. Boas professor of international economics at Harvard University and is associated with its Center for International Affairs. Barry Eichengreen is George C. Pardee and Helen N. Pardee Professor of Economics and Political Science at the University of California --Berkeley. His books include The European Economy since 1945 (Princeton, 2007) and Global Imbalances: The Lessons of Bretton Woods (MIT, 2006). Gerald Holtham is Managing Partner of Cadwyn Capital LLP and former Chief Investment Officer of Morley Fund Management, the investment arm of Aviva PLC. He is currently a Director of the Institute of Welsh Affairs, a visiting Professor at Cardiff University Business School and a member of the Assembly Government's Economic Research Advisory Panel. He was previously Director of the Institute for Public Policy Research. Robert D. Putnam is the Peter and Isabel Malkin Professor of Public Policy at Harvard University and founder of the Saguaro Seminar, a program dedicated to fostering civic engagement in America. He is former dean of the John F. Kennedy School of Government. C. Randall Henning is a visiting fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics. He serves on the faculty of the School of International Service at American University.