A Globalization, Innovation & Development (GID) sponsored lecture, "This Time it Really is Different: Europe, the Financial Crisis, and 'Staying on Top' in the 21st Century" with speaker Mark Blyth (Brown University).

Dr. Blyth’s presentation is co-sponsered by the European Union Center of Excellence at Georgia Tech.

His research falls into three main areas; the role of ideas in politics; second, understanding how complex systems change, especially financial systems; third, how the first two concerns affect political parties and macroeconomic policymaking. He is or has been a visiting professor in the United Kingdom (University of Birmingham), France (Sciences Politique), Germany (University of Mannheim), and Denmark (Copenhagen Business School).He is the author of Great Transformations: Economic Ideas and Institutional Change in the Twentieth Century(Cambridge University Press, 2002); editor of The Handbook of International Political Economy: IPE as a Global Conversation(New York: Routledge Press 2009); co-editor of The Transformation of Great American School Districts: How Big Cities Are Reshaping Public Education, with William Lowe Boyd, and Charles Taylor Kerchner, (Cambridge: Harvard Education Press 2008); and Constructing the International Economy, with Rawi Abdelal and Craig Parsons, (Cornell University Press 2010). He is currently working on The End of the Liberal World?