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About Jeffrey Rogers Hummel
Jeffrey Rogers Hummel is an adjunct scholar with the Cato Institute, professor in the Economics Department at San Jose State University, and has taught both history and economics. He is the author of Emancipating Slaves, Enslaving Free Men: A History of the American Civil War (the second edition of which was released in November 2013). He wrote the scripts for audio tapes produced by Knowledge Products on the Constitution (narrated by Walter Cronkite) and on American Wars (narrated by George C. Scott). His articles and reviews have appeared in the Journal of Economic History, Econ Journal Watch, the Texas Law Review, the Independent Review, the International Philosophical Quarterly, the Chapman Law Review, and such popular publications as the Wall Street Journal, Forbes.com, Investor’s Business Daily, The Freeman, and Liberty Fund’s Library of Economics and Liberty. He has also contributed to such volumes as Boom and Bust Banking (David Beckworth, ed.), Government and the American Economy (Price Fishback, ed.), the Encyclopedia of American Business History and Biography, Reassessing the Presidency (John V. Denson, ed.), and Arms, Politics, and the Economy (Robert Higgs, ed.). Professor Hummel, a former National Fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution, received his Ph.D. in history from the University of Texas at Austin. He has also worked as Publications Director at the Independent Institute and was a tank platoon leader in the U.S. Army.
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The History of U.S. Recessions and Banking Crises

Jeffrey Rogers Hummel/October 22, 2015June 19, 2022

I have never been entirely satisfied with how either economists or historians identify and date past U.S. recessions and banking crises.  Economists, as their studies go further back in time, have a tendency to rely on highly unreliable data series that exaggerate the number of recessions and…

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Reserve Requirements Basel Style: The Liquidity Coverage Ratio

Jeffrey Rogers Hummel/July 31, 2015June 19, 2022

Over the last couple of decades, reserve requirements all but vanished as a means of bank regulation and monetary control.  But now a new variation on reserve requirements is being introduced through the capital controls of the Basel Accords. Canada, the UK, Sweden, Australia, New Zealand, and…

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