"The Great Economic Showdown: "Austrian School (P. Bagus) meets Princes of the Yen (R. Werner)"

"The Great Economic Showdown: "Austrian School (Professor Philipp Bagus meets Princes of the Yen (Professor Richard Werner) moderated by Efrat Fenigson


Professor Richard Werner:

Professor Richard A. Werner, D.Phil. (Oxon), is an LSE and Oxford-educated economist, Professor of Banking and Finance at De Montfort University, UK. Professor Werner is an expert in money, banking, central banking and high growth economic systems. He is also a proponent of decentralised finance via community banking. As founding director of Local First Community Interest Company he is engaged in promoting the establishment of local not-for-profit (but profitable) community banks that lend to SMEs and boost productivity.

In 1991, Professor Werner warned of the coming banking crisis and depression in Japan. In 1995 he proposed a new policy to end banking crises which he called ‘Quantitative Easing’. His book ‘Princes of the Yen’, on central banking, was a top bestseller in Japan in 2001. The 2003 English edition warned of the coming credit bubbles, banking crises and recessions. His 2005 book ‘New Paradigm in Macroeconomics’ (Palgrave Macmillan) presents reality-based economics. His academic research is among the most downloaded scientific work in the world (see www.professorwerner.org).

Previously, he was professor of banking at the University of Southampton, Professor of Economics at Goethe-University Frankfurt, Assistant Professor of Economics at Tokyo’s Sophia University, chief economist of Jardine Fleming Securities (Asia) Ltd. in Tokyo, for over a decade member of the ECB Shadow Council, Senior Managing Director at Bear Stearns Asset Management in London, and a member of the asset allocation committee of TelWel, a multi-billion dollar Japanese corporate pension fund. Earlier, he was a visiting researcher at the Bank of Japan, European Commission Doctoral Fellow at the University of Oxford, Visiting Scholar at the Ministry of Finance, Japan, and the first Shimomura Fellow at the Development Bank of Japan.


Professor Philipp Bagus:

Philipp Bagus is Professor of Economics at the Universidad Rey Juan Carlos in Madrid. He is the author of numerous books, including In Defense of Deflation, The Tragedy of the Euro, and Blind Robbery!: How the Fed, Banks, and Government Steal Our Money (together with Andreas Marquart). His research interests in monetary and business cycle theory have been published in international journals such as the Journal of Business Ethics, Independent Review, the American Journal of Economics and Sociology, and more. His work has been awarded the O.P. Alford III Prize in Libertarian Scholarship, the Sir John M. Templeton Fellowship, and the IREF Essay Prize.


Efrat Fenigson:

Efrat Fenigson is a journalist, podcaster and public speaker, featured by The Wall Street Journal as one of the top 100 Israeli tech leaders. She has worked for leading media outlets and tech companies, and shares her insights on marketing, branding and leadership, economics, politics, money, bitcoin, health & climate, to encourage personal sovereignty & freedom.

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