Episode
Aditi Sahasrabuddhe on the Role Central Banker Relationships Play in Economic Crises
Macro Musings with David Beckworth · Aug 18, 2025 · 59 min
Aditi Sahasrabuddhe is a political scientist at Brown University and the author of the new book, Banker's Trust: How Social Relations Avert Global Financial Collapse. In Aditi's first appearance on the show, she discusses how central bankers' relationships in the 1920's impacted the global economy, how the ending of those relationships played a part in the Great Depression, how we can apply…