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Kevin Dowd is an adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute, and a professor of finance and economics at Durham University in England. Dowd has written extensively on the history and theory of free banking/private money, central banking, financial regulation, and commodity monetary systems. His books include Private Money: The Path to Monetary Stability, The State and the Monetary System, Laissez-Faire Banking, Competition and Finance: A New Interpretation of Financial and Monetary Economics, and Money and the Market: Essays on Free Banking. and New Private Monies – A Bit Part Player? He is the author of a highly regarded finance text Measuring Market Risk, and in recent years has done work on financial risk management, pensions, and mortality modeling. He is also the co-author with Martin Hutchinson of Alchemists of Loss: How Modern Finance and Government Intervention Crashed the Financial System (Wiley, 2010). Dowd, and also has affiliations with the Cobden Centre, Institute of Economic Affairs, Independent Institute, and Instituto Bruno Leoni.

Dowd holds a PhD in economics from Sheffield University.
Digital Money, Financial Markets

Bitcoin Will Bite the Dust

Kevin Dowd/November 18, 2014June 19, 2022 /18 Comments

At the 32nd Annual Monetary Conference on November 14, 2014, I presented my paper "Bitcoin Will Bite the Dust", which was co-written with Martin Hutchinson. Below is the transcript of my talk and PowerPoint slides. I welcome your comments. A video of the panel is available on…

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Digital Money, Economic History, Free Banking

Let's not ban private money

Kevin Dowd/May 10, 2014June 19, 2022 /16 Comments

[originally posted at the Institute for Economic Affairs on 6 May 2014] In a recent Financial Times article Martin Wolf announced his conversion to the view that private banks should be stripped of their ability to create money. The proposal to end private money is an old…

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