Christopher Rude

Christopher Rude is a political economist with an interest in finance. He has a PhD in economics from the New School, where he specialized in development and macroeconomics, and a MA and BA in political science from the University of Chicago, where he studied American politics and state theory. He has taught economics at NYU and the New School and political science at York University in Toronto and worked as a consultant for the United Nations on the Asian crisis and the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung on the current economic crisis. Prior to his return to academia, Christopher worked as an economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and on Wall Street. His recent work has focused on analyzing the Federal Reserve and the IMF’s response to the global economic slowdown. He advocates a radical restructuring of both the US and the international financial system.