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.