- “Retreat from Globalization? Current U.S. Policies and Historical Precedents,” conversation with Michael Klein of Econofact, September 28, 2025.
- “The end of an era?” Talk at the World Economic Forum, Tianjin, June 25, 2025″
- Globalization: Lessons from History and Risks for Today,” webinar with David Bowers of Absolute Strategy Research, London, May 2025. Full transcript here.
- “How Politics and Economics Interact,” IMF Podcast, April 11, 2024\
- “People, Communities, and Economic Changes,” Econofact Chat, March 17, 2024
- “The Politics of Exchange Rates,” Econofact Chat, October 16, 2022
- “The Plateauing of Globalization,” Econofact Chat, July 3, 2022
- “Populism, Polarization, and the Pandemic,” Keynote address to Network for European Studies Third International Conference on European Studies, Milan, June 2021
- “International Politics and the Global Pandemic,” Talk at Lehigh University College of Health, May 6, 2021 (on Zoom)
- “Pandemics and Politics,” a conversation between Jeff Frieden and Dr. Tom Frieden, sponsored by Harvard’s Office of the Vice Provost for Advances in Learning, September 20, 2020.
- Two Friedens discuss the political economy of public health. Jeff is a Professor of Government at Harvard, Tom is a former CDC Director. Politics and economics have changed the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, and the pandemic has changed the course of politics. Why has public health become a political football in the United States? Why has global public health become the focus of international conflict?
- “The Political Economy of Economic Policy,” Finance and Development, Summer 2020. Video response to questions from readers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=382BTVQyfnA
- “Brexited!” Kathleen Molony (Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard) spoke with Christina Davis and me about Brexit, March 7, 2020.
- “The Backlash against Globalization and the Future of the International Economic Order,” keynote address to the Munich Politics Network, September 2019
- “The Gold Standard: An Interview with Jeffry Frieden,” a podcast with the editors of Coin World, August 2019.
- “The 2016 Election, the New Rust Belt, and the Link Between the Shift in Politics and Globalization,” a conversation with Michael Klein of Econofact.org.
- “Rise of Populism, Labor Mobility, and the Eurozone,” Macro Musings with David Beckworth, July 1, 2019. [Link to podcast can be found here]
- “Lessons from History and the Future of International Trade,” an LSE podcast with Doug Irwin and Jeff Frieden, January 2019 (Link: the Ballpark Podcast, LSE).
- “What can the Eurozone learn from U.S. monetary history?” The Sound of Economics Podcast, Bruegel, 12 August 2016.
- “Monetary policy and more with Jeff Frieden,” LSE Podcast: The Ballpark, June 2016.
- “Lessons for the Euro from Early American Monetary and Financial History,” Bruegel Essay and Lecture Series, May 2016. [Youtube page]
- “Globalization: Past, Present, Future,” The Andrew F. Smith Lecture in International Economics and Development, Maxwell School of Syracuse University, 26 April 2016.
- “Mad About Politics? Follow the Money [Audio],” The McAlvany Weekly Commentary, 23 March 2016. For a transcript from the co-hosts, see here.
- “Lessons for the Euro from America’s Past,” Public lecture at the London School of Economics, 19 January 2016. [Download the audio file here; a link to the Storify page can be found here]
- “Currency Politics,” The Invisible Hand Podcast, May 2015.
- “Currency Politics: The Eurozone Crisis and the World’s Financial Future,” the Alice Gorlin Memorial Lecture, Oakland University, April 8, 2015. [If your Flash plugins are not up to date, there is a lower res. version available here.]
- “Early American monetary and financial history: Lessons for the euro,” Presentation to Absolute Strategy Research (London), September 13, 2013. Slides for this presentation are here. A timeline of early American monetary and fiscal history is here.
- Audio of panel at Boston Book Festival on “The Economy: Advice for the Winner,” October 27, 2012, with Adam Davidson (moderator), Michael Porter, Andrew McAfee, and Esther Duflo.
- “Lost Decades? Global Debt Crises and Long Recoveries“ Talk to Penn Social Science and Policy Forum, October 18, 2012\
- “How to Lose Two Decades,” Bernard Schwartz Lecture at the School of Advanced International Studies, September 6, 2012.
- “The Great Recession and Its Aftermath: A Global Overview,” talk at UCLA, May 22, 2012.
- “Interview on The Current Moment,” December 13, 2011.
- “The Exchange, with Laura Knoy” on New Hamphire Public Radio, December 7, 2011.
- Jeff Frieden on Smart People Podcast, November 2011.
- Lost Decades: IMF Book Forum Webcast, October 14, 2011.
- “The American Debt Crisis and the Global Economy,” All School Lecture at the Groton School, October 10, 2011.
- Jeff Frieden on The John Batchelor Show, October 8, 2011.
- Lost Decades: launch and discussion, Bruegel, Brussels, September 6, 2011.
- “American politics in the aftermath of the crisis,” presentation to the Rencontres economiques d’Aix-en-Provence, July 8, 2011. Published version here.
- “On the Future of the Euro,” Center for European Studies, Harvard University, November 3, 2010.
- “The Crisis and the Future of Capitalism,” World Policy Conference, Marrakech, Morocco, October 31, 2009, (Part I) and (Part II).
- Global governance and domestic political economy, Vox EU (interviewed by Romesh Vaitilingam), October 16, 2009.
- “America in the World Economy: From the American Century to Globalization,” Lecture at the International History Institute at Boston University, in a series titled “The Short American Century, 1941-2008: Contrasting Views of the Era of American Dominance,” October 8, 2009.
- World Affairs Council of Northern California (San Francisco, May 3, 2006)