Benn Steil is senior fellow and director of international economics, as well as the official historian in residence, at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York. He is also the founding editor ...

China’s central bank is giving out swap lines like M&Ms, Benn Steil and Elisabeth Harding write in a guest commentary.

IntroductionSince the financial crisis of 2007, central banks around the world have entered into a multitude of bilateral currency swap agreements with one another. These agreements allow a central ...

U.S. News spoke with Benn Steil, a senior fellow and director of international economics at the Council on Foreign Relations, and the author of “The World That Wasn’t: Henry Wallace and the ...

Testimony by CFR fellows and experts before Congress. Benn Steil testifies before the Senate on the importance of regulatory reforms to make U.S. markets more resilient to the failures of ...

I recently happened upon a deep pool of quips from Keynes in Benn Steil’s ‘The Battle of Bretton Woods’, which is a superb account of the tussle between Britain and America to shape the new ...

The “law of one price” holds that identical goods should trade for the same price in an efficient market. But to what extent does it actually hold internationally?… Leaders of the industrial ...

Amity Shlaes is the author of The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression and a National Review Institute fellow. Experimentation without accountability, and laws like chocolate-chip ...

Forget China or Russia – the biggest threat to the dollar right now is the US itself, according to Benn Steil. In an op-ed for Project Syndicate Wednesday, the economist warned that political ...

Schumpeter, "Can Capitalism Survive?" in his Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy (Routledge reprint, 1942, 2000); Benn Steil, David G. Victor and Richard R. Nelson eds., Technological Innovation and ...

In a op-ed for Foreign Affairs published Thursday, Zongyuan Zoe Liu, a fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, and Benn Steil, the director of international economics at the New York-based ...

The Battle of Bretton Woods: John Maynard Keynes, Harry Dexter White, and the Making of a New World Order Benn Steil Information technology accounts for over one-third of recent U.S. GDP growth and ...