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About George Selgin
George Selgin is a senior fellow and director of the Center for Monetary and Financial Alternatives at the Cato Institute and Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of Georgia. His research covers a broad range of topics within the field of monetary economics, including monetary history, macroeconomic theory, and the history of monetary thought. He is the author of The Theory of Free Banking (Rowman & Littlefield, 1988), Bank Deregulation and Monetary Order (Routledge, 1996), Less Than Zero: The Case for a Falling Price Level in a Growing Economy (The Institute of Economic Affairs, 1997), and, most recently, Good Money: Birmingham Button Makers, the Royal Mint, and the Beginnings of Modern Coinage (University of Michigan Press, 2008). Selgin is one of the founders, along with Kevin Dowd and Lawrence H. White, of the Modern Free Banking School, which draws its inspiration from the writings of Friedrich Hayek on denationalization of money and choice in currency. Selgin has written for numerous scholarly journals, including the British Numismatic Journal, The Economic Journal, the Economic History Review, the Journal of Economic Literature, and the Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking, and for popular outlets such as The Christian Science Monitor, The Financial Times, and The Wall Street Journal, among others. Selgin retired from the University of Georgia to join Cato in September 2014. He has also taught at George Mason University, the University of Hong Kong, and West Virginia University. He holds a B.A. in economics and zoology from Drew University, and a Ph.D. in economics from New York University.
Financial Markets, Free Banking

Where's My Model?

George Selgin/June 22, 2011December 19, 2015 /21 Comments

Anyone who peruses my work on free banking—or my other writings for that matter—will notice that I'm not especially inclined to express my ideas mathematically. To put the matter more positively: I prefer plain English. The preference has if anything grown more marked over time. While writing…

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Financial Markets, Free Banking, Money & Politics

Those "Other" 100 Percent Reserve Banking Advocates

George Selgin/June 8, 2011December 19, 2015 /17 Comments

(This one's especially for GPO.) In the aftermath of the U.S. banking crises of the 1930s, it became common for American economists to speak of the "inherent" instability of fractional-reserve banking and of the "perverse elasticity" of money supply in fractional-reserve banking systems. What the economists in…

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Free Banking

Rothbard's Vigilantes

George Selgin/June 2, 2011December 19, 2015 /25 Comments

Over at Cafe Hayek, some comments made concerning my last Free Banking post suggest that Murray Rothbard, though opposed in principle to fractional-reserve banking, did not wish to see it prohibited.  That's not really correct.  As I pointed out there: "Actually in arguing that FR banking was…

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Economic History, Free Banking, Money & Politics, The Fed & Central Banks

The State and 100 Percent Reserve Banking

George Selgin/May 31, 2011December 19, 2015 /64 Comments

Free bankers have been fighting a war on two fronts.  On one they face champions of central banking and managed money.  On the other they struggle against advocates of 100-percent reserve banking.  Although the second front is a lot smaller than the first, it's far from being…

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