Ashoka Mody

Ashoka Mody is Charles and Marie Visiting Professor in International Economic Policy, Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University. Previously, he was Deputy Director at the International Monetary Fund's Research and European Departments. He is the author of EuroTragedy: A Drama in Nine Acts. (July 2018)

The EU is in trouble and Ursula Von der Leyen is the wrong person to rescue it

Today it is hard to identify one strategic goal on which European leaders are unified to better the lives of European citizens.

By Ashoka Mody

/ 21 Feb 2020

The EU is in trouble and Ursula Von der Leyen is the wrong person to rescue it

Theresa May heard but did not heed Brexit’s call for a fairer Britain

Perhaps she was a prisoner of received ways of thinking, and therefore did not believe in her own rhetoric.

By Ashoka Mody

/ 4 Jun 2019

Theresa May heard but did not heed Brexit’s call for a fairer Britain

Has the ECB reached the end of its rope?

Why, at its March 7 meeting, did the European Central Bank tinker with the mounting risk of a damaging eurozone recession – has it reached both its political and technical limits?

By Ashoka Mody

/ 11 Apr 2019

Has the ECB reached the end of its rope?

The IMF abetted the European Union’s subversion of Greek democracy

Who was accountable and who is accountable to the Greek people? European handling of the Greek crisis takes economic colonialism to a twenty-first-century high-water mark.

By Ashoka Mody

/ 1 Sep 2018

The IMF abetted the European Union’s subversion of Greek democracy

Who was accountable and who is accountable to the Greek people? European handling of the Greek crisis takes economic colonialism to a twenty-first-century high-water mark.

By Ashoka Mody

/ 1 Sep 2018

Brexit is a consequence of low upward mobility

In the Brexit referendum, UK citizens were pleading through their vote – and non-vote – for a fair shot at the future.

By Ashoka Mody and Rachel Lurie

/ 18 Aug 2018

Brexit is a consequence of low upward mobility

In the Brexit referendum, UK citizens were pleading through their vote – and non-vote – for a fair shot at the future.

By Ashoka Mody and Rachel Lurie

/ 18 Aug 2018

Recovering human dignity: Richard Bernstein on the relevance of Hannah Arendt today

Arendt’s fundamental insight was that humans are not born equal; rather, a political construction is needed to create equality of public voice. Review.

By Ashoka Mody

/ 31 Jul 2018

Recovering human dignity: Richard Bernstein on the relevance of Hannah Arendt today

Arendt’s fundamental insight was that humans are not born equal; rather, a political construction is needed to create equality of public voice. Review.

By Ashoka Mody

/ 31 Jul 2018

German social democrats have alienated their base and fractured Europe

Unable to generate a domestic consensus and powerless to counter the priorities dictated by the euro, social democracy must continue to fail at home while divisions among EU nations deepen.

By Ashoka Mody

/ 1 Jun 2018

German social democrats have alienated their base and fractured Europe

Unable to generate a domestic consensus and powerless to counter the priorities dictated by the euro, social democracy must continue to fail at home while divisions among EU nations deepen.

By Ashoka Mody

/ 1 Jun 2018

In bad faith

Debt relief must happen now—more than the IMF suggests—to prevent the need for even more debt relief later. This is as much in the creditors’ interest as it is in the Greeks'.

By Ashoka Mody

/ 7 Jul 2015