Steven Bryan

Steven Bryan is an attorney in Tokyo. He has his Ph.D. in history from Columbia University and his J.D. from Harvard Law School. His first book, The Gold Standard at the Turn of the Twentieth Century (Columbia University Press, 2010) examines how the gold standard was adopted worldwide at the turn of the twentieth century as a tool of protectionists and nationalists with beliefs far different than those of current day globalization proponents. He is currently working on a history of the politics of economic policy in the 1920s and 1930s and a comparative history of Japan in the 1920s and 1990s.