Paul Blustein

Paul Blustein is a CIGI senior fellow. An award-winning journalist and author, he has written extensively about international economics, trade and financial crises.

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Business and Economics Journalism International Economic Institutions Global Financial Crises
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Bio

Paul Blustein is a CIGI senior fellow. An award-winning journalist and author, he has written extensively about international economics, trade and financial crises. Prior to joining CIGI in 2010, Paul was a journalist-in-residence at the Brookings Institution, a staff writer for The Washington Post and the chief economic correspondent for The Wall Street Journal. Paul released his sixth book, Schism: China, America and the Fracturing of the Global Trading System, in September 2019.

A native of Washington, DC, Paul attended the University of Wisconsin (B.A., history), before heading to Oxford University on a Rhodes Scholarship, graduating with an M.A. in philosophy, politics and economics in 1975. He lives in Kamakura, Japan, with his wife, Yoshie Sakai, and is the father of four children.

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Select Publications

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Blustein, Paul. 2009. "Misadventures of the Most Favored Nations: Clashing Egos, Inflated Ambitions, and the Great Shambles of the World Trade System". New York: PublicAffairs.
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Blustein, Paul. 2005. "And the Money Kept Rolling In (and Out): Wall Street, the IMF, and the Bankrupting of Argentina". New York: PublicAffairs.
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Blustein, Paul. 2001. "The Chastening: Inside the Crisis That Rocked the Global Financial System and Humbled the IMF". New York: PublicAffairs.

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