Jeff Frieden

@jafrieden

Professor of International and Public Affairs and Political Science at Columbia University | Specializes in politics of international economic relations.

Cambridge, MA blogs.cuit.columbia.edu/jaf81/ Joined October 2011

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Jeff Frieden @jafrieden Oct 27

Socio-economic effects of Reconstuction. Now in print, my article with Richard Grossman and Daniel Lowery, “Was freedom road a dead end? Socio-economic effects of Reconstruction in the American South,”in Economic History Review 79 (2026), available here blogs.cuit.columbia.edu/jaf81/files/20…

Jeff Frieden @jafrieden Sep 22

Europe’s future. In a new paper w/S Walter we assess EU challenges in new intl order. Conflicts among/within nations hamper EU “sovereign autonomy.” We suggest econ desirable and politically feasible paths forward. Part of CEPR's “Europe 2050” @ cepr.org/publications/p…

Jeff Frieden @jafrieden Sep 2

“The New Political Economy of U.S. Trade” with David Lake in Current History magazine. We survey the Trump Admin's trade policies, provide historical perspective, and analyze the expected impact on the US and the intl trading system. Available here blogs.cuit.columbia.edu/jaf81/files/20…

Jeff Frieden @jafrieden Jun 23

Podcast on the Cost of Geoeconomic Coercion.
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Jeff Frieden @jafrieden Jun 9

Compensation, austerity and populism. In a newly published paper, Chase Foster and I argue that countries with more ample social safety nets+less austerity faced less significant populist upsurges. Now in print in European Union Politics, available here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/14…

journals.sagepub.com Compensation, austerity and populism: Labor market spending and voting in 16 Western European... There has been a dramatic rise in voting for populist parties in Europe over the past thirty years. We assess the role of government labor market policy in damp...