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Watson Institute for International Studies. Biography Mark Blyth is professor of international political economy at Brown University.

Watson Institute for International Studies

He is based in the Department of Political Science, but his research begs and borrows from multiple fields. He is particularly interested in how uncertainty and randomness impact complex systems, particularly economic systems. He was a member of the Warwick Commission on International Financial Reform that made a case for macro-prudential regulation. He is the author of Great Transformations: Economic Ideas and Institutional Change in the Twentieth Century (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2002), and most recently, Austerity: The History of a Dangerous Idea (Oxford University Press 2013). Blog.mpettis.

Thoughts for the post-2008 world. Levy Economics Institute.