Eswar Prasad

EconomistModernb. 1965· Indian-American

Economist at Cornell University and senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. His book The Future of Money maps how digital currencies, stablecoins, and central bank digital money are changing who can access finance and on what terms. Earlier books The Dollar Trap and Gaining Currency examined dollar dominance and the rise of the renminbi; The Doom Loop, on the fraying world economic order, followed in 2026.