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George Selgin

Economics

#924

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#1090

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#469

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Monetary Economics

#126

World Rank

#131

Historical Rank

#44

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Macroeconomics

#249

World Rank

#263

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#98

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PhD Economics New York University
Masters Economics New York University
Bachelors Economics Colorado College

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According to Wikipedia, George Selgin is an American economist. He is Senior Fellow and Director Emeritus of the Cato Institute's Center for Monetary and Financial Alternatives, where he is editor-in-chief of the center's blog, Alt-M, Professor Emeritus of economics at the Terry College of Business at the University of Georgia, and an associate editor of Econ Journal Watch. Selgin formerly taught at George Mason University, the University of Hong Kong, and West Virginia University.

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George Selgin's Published Works

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Published Works

How Would the Invisible Hand Handle Money (1994) (331)
The Theory of Free Banking: Money Supply Under Competitive Note Issue (1988) (301)
Synthetic Commodity Money (2013) (231)
The Case for a Falling Price Level in a Growing Economy (2008) (147)
Has the Fed Been a Failure? (2010) (139)
THE EVOLUTION OF A FREE BANKING SYSTEM (1987) (122)
Praxeology and understanding: An analysis of the controversy in Austrian Economics (1988) (109)
In defense of fiduciary media—or, we arenot devo(lutionists), we are Misesians! (1996) (82)
Free Banking and Monetary Control (1994) (76)
On Ensuring the Acceptability of a New Fiat Money (1994) (65)
The liquidity effect: Identifying short-run interest rate dynamics using long-run restrictions☆ (1995) (57)
Adaptive Learning and the Transition to Fiat Money (2003) (52)
Salvaging Gresham's Law: The Good, the Bad, and the Illegal (1996) (51)
Bank Deregulation and Monetary Order (2002) (50)
A Fiscal Theory of Government's Role in Money (1999) (46)
Legal Restrictions, Financial Weakening, and the Lender of Last Resort (1989) (43)
Monetary Reform and the Redemption of National Bank Notes, 1863–1913 (1994) (38)
The Futility of Central Banking (2010) (38)
In defense of bank suspension (1993) (35)
The Productivity Gap: Monetary Policy, the Subprime Boom, and the Post-2001 Productivity Surge (2015) (35)
Good money : Birmingham button makers, the Royal Mint, and the beginnings of modern coinage, 1775-1821: private enterprise and popular coinage (2008) (33)
The Theory of Free Banking: Money Supply under Competitive Note Issue. (1991) (33)
Monetary Equilibrium and the Productivity Norm of Price-Level Policy (1990) (32)
In-Concert Overexpansion and the Precautionary Demand for Bank Reserves (2001) (32)
Menger's Theory of Money: Some Experimental Evidence (2000) (31)
The “Productivity Norm” versus Zero Inflation in the History of Economic Thought (1995) (29)
Hayek versus Keynes on How the Price Level Ought to Behave (1999) (27)
Dollarization: A Scorecard (2000) (24)
Bank lending ‘manias’ in theory and history (1992) (24)
Those Dishonest Goldsmiths (2010) (24)
Central Banks as Sources of Financial Instability F (2010) (23)
Credible Currency: A Constitutional Perspective (2005) (23)
The Option Clause in Scottish Banking (1997) (23)
Milton Friedman and the Case against Currency Monopoly (2008) (22)
By our bootstraps: Origins and effects of the high-wage doctrine and the minimum wage (1999) (22)
The Suppression of State Banknotes: A Reconsideration (2000) (22)
Buffer-Stock Money: Interpreting Short-Run Dynamics Using Long-Run Restrictions (1994) (20)
Steam, Hot Air, and Small Change: Matthew Boulton and the Reform of Britain's Coinage (2003) (19)
L Street: Bagehotian Prescriptions for a 21st Century Money Market (2011) (18)
Mere quibbles: Bagus and Howden’s critique of the theory of free banking (2011) (18)
Wholesale payments: questioning the market-failure hypothesis (2004) (18)
Are Banking Crises a Free-Market Phenomenon? (1994) (18)
Strong Steam, Weak Patents, or the Myth of Watt’s Innovation-Blocking Monopoly, Exploded (2010) (17)
Should We Let Banks Create Money (2000) (16)
The theory of free banking : a study of the supply of money under competitive note issue (business cycles, monetary reform) (1986) (14)
Competitive Monies and the Suffolk Bank System: Comment (1988) (14)
The Check Tax: Fiscal Folly and the Great Monetary Contraction (1997) (13)
James Watt as Intellectual Monopolist: Comment on Boldrin and Levine (2006) (11)
Operation Twist-the-Truth: How the Federal Reserve Misrepresents Its History and Performance (2014) (11)
New York's Bank: The National Monetary Commission and the Founding of the Fed (2015) (10)
The case for a "productivity norm": Comment on Dowd (1995) (10)
L. Albert Hahn: A Precursor of Keynesianism and the Monetarist Counterrevolution (1990) (9)
Banknotes and Economic Growth (2007) (9)
The Rise and Fall of the Gold Standard in the United States (2012) (8)
Watt, Again? Boldrin and Levine Still Exaggerate the Adverse Effect of Patents on the Progress of Steam Power (2009) (8)
Real and Pseudo Monetary Rules (2016) (8)
Bank Deregulation & Monetary Order (1996) (8)
The rationalization of Central Banks (1993) (8)
Currency Privatization as a Substitute for Currency Boards and Dollarization (2005) (7)
Accommodating Changes in the Relative Demand for Currency: Free Banking vs. Central Banking (1988) (6)
THE STABILITY AND EFFICIENCY OF MONEY SUPPLY UNDER FREE BANKING (2002) (6)
The institutional roots of Great Britain's ‘big problem of small change’ (2010) (5)
COMMERCIAL BANKS AS PURE INTERMEDIARIES* : Between “old” and “new” views (1989) (5)
The Money Interest and the Public Interest: American Monetary Thought, 1920–1970 . By Perry G. Mehrling. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1997. Pp. xiv, 283. $45.00. (1999) (4)
Law, Legislation, and the Gold Standard (2014) (4)
100 Percent Reserve Money: The Small Change Challenge (2009) (3)
The Financial Meltdown (2009) (3)
Reforming Last-Resort Lending: The Flexible Open Market Alternative (2016) (3)
Free banking in Foochow (1992) (2)
The fiscal and monetary response to COVID‐19: What the Great Depression has – and hasn't – taught us (2021) (2)
In Defense of Fiduciary Media-or , W e are Not Devo ( lutionists ) , W e are Misesiaasll (1998) (2)
The Financial Crisis and the Free Market Solution (2013) (2)
The Fed’s New Operating Framework: How We Got Here and Why We Shouldn’t Stay (2019) (2)
The Dependency of Wage Contracts on Monetary Policy. (1995) (2)
Fatalistically Flawed: A Review Essay on Fragile by Design, by Charles W. Calomiris and Stephen H. Haber (2015) (2)
LUDWIG VON MISES AND THE CASE FOR GOLD (1999) (2)
The Secret of the Euro's Success (2010) (2)
Financial Stability Without Central Banks (2018) (2)
Laissez-Faire Monetary Theorists in Late Nineteenth Century America (1990) (2)
Money and the Invisible Hand: A Correction (1996) (1)
Those dishonest goldsmiths1 (2012) (1)
The Theory of Free Banking: Money Supply under Competitive Note Issue@@@The Evolution of Central Banks (1990) (1)
Interstate Banking: The Reform That Won't Go Away (2010) (1)
Interstate Banking: The Reform That Won't Go Away (2010) (1)
Fatalistically Flawed: A Review Essay onFragile by Design, by Charles W. Calomiris and Stephen H. Haber: Fatalistically Flawed (2015) (1)
More revolutionary than thou (1989) (1)
They Stumble Who Run Fast: Roubini and Mihm's Crisis Economics (2011) (1)
Gresham’s Law (2020) (1)
Mere quibbles: Bagus and Howden’s critique of the theory of free banking (2011) (1)
Quasi-Commodity Money (2012) (1)
Bank Self-Regulation: Comment on Bordo and Schwartz (1995) (1)
The Price of Gold and Monetary Policy (1996) (0)
The Euro and world inflation (2006) (0)
Guest Editors’ Introduction: Monetary rules for a post-crisis world (2017) (0)
Voltaire on Labor Markets and Monetary Policy (2015) (0)
Is Non-State Money Possible? (2019) (0)
Replacing Potemkin Capitalism: Russia's Need for a Free-Market Financial System (1999) (0)
Janet Yellen's Lift Off (2020) (0)
Commercial Banks as Pure Intermediaries: Between ‚Äúold‚Äù and ‚Äúnew‚Äù views (1996) (0)
Kenneth Quickenden, Sally Baggott, and Malcolm Dick, eds., Matthew Boulton: enterprising industrialist of the Enlightenment ( Farnham: Ashgate, 2013. Pp. xviii + 294. 26 illus. ISBN 9781409422181 Hbk. £79) (2015) (0)
Monopoly, Competition, and Great Britain’s “Big Problem of Small Change” (2007) (0)
A Regulatory Placebo? or, The Strange Case of Dr. Kaufman and Mr. Seir (1997) (0)
Instead of the Fed: Past and present alternatives to the Federal Reserve System (2015) (0)
Bank-Lending ‚ÄúManias‚Äù In Theory And History (1996) (0)
FULL PRIvATIzATI0N OF CURRENCY IN A NEARLY CONVENTIONAL MONEY AND BANKING SYSTEM (2003) (0)
Incredible Commitments: Why the EMU is Destroying Both Europe and Itself (2013) (0)

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