Stephen Samuel Roach (born September 16, 1945) is an American economist. He serves as senior fellow at Yale University’s Jackson Institute for Global Affairs, and a senior lecturer at the Yale School of Management. He was formerly chairman of Morgan Stanley Asia, and chief economist at Morgan Stanley, the New York City-based investment bank. In 2009, Dirk Bezemer, a Professor of Economics at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands, noted that Roach was one of the earliest to have predicted the 2008 global financial crisis.
Books in order of publication:
The Next Asia: Opportunities and Challenges for a New Globalization, (Wiley 2009)
Unbalanced: The Codependency of America and China (2014)[
Accidental Conflict: America, China, and the Clash of False Narratives, (Yale University Press 2022)
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