Beyond the Ivory Tower: Stanley Fischer on the economics of contemporary global issues
An interview with introduction by Brian Snowdon
Published: March 2004
Stanley Fischer had a long and distinguished career as an academic economist at
MIT, and was Vice President, Development Economics and Chief Economist at
the World Bank, before becoming First Deputy Managing Director of the
International Monetary Fund in 1994. He is now President of Citigroup
International and Vice Chairman of Citigroup. In this interview, Brian Snowdon
discusses with Stanley Fischer several important issues relating to the
contemporary world economy, including problems of stabilisation, inflation and
growth, the economics and politics of transition, exchange rate regimes, the IMF,
the East Asian crisis, and globalisation and economic development.