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George A. Selgin
Senior Fellow
George A. Selgin is professor of economics at the University of Georgia. He is an expert on banking, monetary policy, and macroeconomics. He is author of Bank Deregulation and Monetary Order, Good Money: Birmingham Button makers, the Royal Mint, and the Beginnings of Modern Coinage, Less Than Zero: The Case for a Falling Price Level in a Growing Economy, and The Theory of Free Banking: Money Supply under Competitive Note Issue.
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Cato Studies
"Has the Fed Been a Failure?," by George A. Selgin, William D. Lastrapes and Lawrence H. White, Working Paper no. 2, November 9, 2010.
"Replacing Potemkin Capitalism: Russia's Need for a Free-Market Financial System," by Kurt Schuler and George A. Selgin, Policy Analysis no. 348, June 7, 1999.
"Replacing the Ruble in Lithuania: Real Change versus Pseudoreform," by Kurt Schuler, George A. Selgin and Joseph Sinkey Jr., Policy Analysis no. 163, October 28, 1991.
"Interstate Banking: The Reform That Won't Go Away," by Steven Horwitz and George A. Selgin, Policy Analysis no. 97, December 15, 1987.
"The Case for Free Banking: Then and Now," Policy Analysis no. 60, October 21, 1985.
Articles and Newsletters
"Central Banks as Sources of Financial Instability," The Independent Review, Volume 14, Number 4, Spring 2010
Opinion and Commentary
"Did Bernanke Save Us from Another Great Depression?," Christian Science Monitor, September 17, 2009
"End the Fed? A Not-So-Crazy Idea," Christian Science Monitor, August 3, 2009
"Argentina Is Short of Cash – Literally," The Wall Street Journal, January 5, 2009
"At the Fed, Nothing Succeeds Like Failure," Cato.org, April 22, 2008
"Federal Reserve Should Resist Tinkering," Christian Science Monitor, August 31, 2007
Events
"Can Government Be Trusted with the Money Supply?," April 17, 2009 [Book Forum]
"25th Annual Monetary Conference: Monetary Arrangements in the 21st Century," November 14, 2007 [Conference]
"22nd Annual Monetary Conference: International Monetary Reform and Capital Freedom," October 14, 2004 [Conference]
Multimedia
Panel 2: Fed Policy and the Allocation of Credit with Mark A. Calabria, Allan H. Meltzer and Roger W. Garrison (November 16, 2011) [Events, 01:13:43]
Cato Institute 27th Annual Monetary Conference - Toward a Market-Based Monetary Regime with Donald J. Boudreaux, Leland B. Yeager and Richard W. Rahn (November 15, 2009) [Events, 56:30]
George A. Selgin discusses the Federal Reserve on Wisconsin Public Radio's The Joy Cardin Show (August 14, 2009) [Media Highlights - Radio, 41:46]
Can Government Be Trusted with the Money Supply? with Richard W. Rahn, Steve H. Hanke and James A. Dorn (April 17, 2009) [Events, 01:21:32]
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