Fourth annual Richard N. Cooper Memorial Lecture featuring Maurice Obstfeld

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Event Summary In his landmark 1968 book, The Economics of Interdependence , Richard N. Cooper examined a central challenge of the global economy: how nations can preserve the benefits of international economic cooperation while maintaining the freedom to pursue their own economic interests. In this fourth annual Richard N. Cooper Memorial Lecture, Maurice Obstfeld, PIIE C. Fred Bergsten Senior Fellow, revisits the evolution of that challenge, tracing how the economic and political landscape of the late 1960s transformed over subsequent decades. Obstfeld examines tensions between economic interdependence and national autonomy, from balance of payments pressures and the regulation of business and banking to emerging global challenges such as public health, climate change…

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