AboutFacultyJoseph Joyce

Joseph Joyce
M. Margaret Ball Professor of International Relations and Professor of Economics, Wellesley College
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS

Joseph Joyce
Joseph P. Joyce is a Professor of Economics at Wellesley College, and holds the M. Margaret Ball Chair in International Relations.
He served as the first Faculty Director of the Madeleine Korbel Institute for Global Affairs from 2009 through 2016. In 2014, he was awarded the Pinanski Teaching Prize, awarded to honor fine teaching. 
 
Professor Joyce received a B.S.F.S. degree in international affairs from Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in economics from Boston University. His research deals with issues in financial globalization. He has also studied the policies and programs of the IMF, and has written several journal articles on the IMF. Professor Joyce's books, The IMF and Global Financial Crises: Phoenix Rising?  and International Investment Income, were published by Cambridge University Press in 2013 and 2025, respectively. Additionally, in several journal articles, he investigated the causes and consequences of bank crises in emerging market countries. 

Events

Wintersession 2017
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
The Electoral Consequences of Globalization
Joseph Joyce, M. Margaret Ball Professor of International Relations; Professor of Economics, Wellesley College, discussed how the unequal distribution of benefits from globalization have impacted politics, particularly in the U.S., and started a conversation with Fellows about how inequalities can be reduced through government policy.
Wintersession 2015
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
Global Inequality and Piketty's Capital
by Professor Joseph Joyce, Faculty Director, Madeleine Korbel Albright Institute for Global Affairs
Wintersession 2014
GOVERNANCE & CIVIL SOCIETY
The Need for Infrastructure in the 21st Century
by Joseph Joyce, Professor of Economics, Wellesley College
Wintersession 2018
GOVERNANCE & CIVIL SOCIETY
Populism: Types, Policies, Consequences, Alternatives
Joseph Joyce, the M. Margaret Ball Professor of International Relations; Professor of Economics at Wellesley College spoke on the different understandings of populism from an economic perspective.
LEADERSHIP
Oct
19
Training Future Global Leaders
Join the Albright Institute at A Very Wellesley Weekend
Wintersession 2020
EDUCATION LEADERSHIP
A Brief History of the Albright Institute
Madeleine Korbel Albright ’59, U.S. Secretary of State (1997–2001), Stacie Goddard, Faculty Director at the Albright Institute, Joseph Joyce, Founding Faculty Director, and Takis Metaxas, Faculty Director (2016-2019) talk about the history and future of the Albright Institute.
Wintersession
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
Jan
21
A New Bretton Woods -- Cooperation Towards a Resilient, Sustainable, and Inclusive World
In this talk, Ms. Kristalina Georgieva, Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund, will discuss how the IMF is shaping a more resilient, sustainable, and inclusive global economy.
Wintersession 2021
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
A New Bretton Woods: Cooperation Towards a Resilient, Sustainable, & Inclusive World
An Albright Institute conversation with Kristalina Georgieva, Managing Director, International Monetary Fund, moderated by Joseph Joyce, M. Margaret Ball Professor of International Relations and Professor of Economics. Georgieva will discuss how the IMF is shaping a more resilient, sustainable, and inclusive global economy.
Wintersession 2024
EDUCATION LEADERSHIP
Tribute to Madeleine Albright—A History of MKAI
A look back at the Albright Institute's History