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# Lawrence H. White 

Senior Fellow, Center for Monetary and Financial Alternatives 

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Lawrence H. White is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute’s [Center for Monetary and Financial Alternatives](https://www.cato.org/center-monetary-financial-alternatives) and has been a professor of economics at George Mason University since 2009. An expert on banking and monetary policy, he is the author of [*The Clash of Economic Ideas*](http://www.amazon.com/Clash-Economic-Ideas-Lawrence-White-ebook/dp/B008CDS17G/ref=asap_B001HD35S8_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1416579799&sr=1-1) (Cambridge University Press, 2012), [*The Theory of Monetary Institutions*](http://www.amazon.com/Theory-Monetary-Institutions-Lawrence-White/dp/0631212140/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1416593491&sr=1-1&keywords=The+theory+of+monetary+institutions) (Basil Blackwell, 1999), [*Free Banking in Britain*](http://www.amazon.com/Free-Banking-Britain-Experience-1800-1845/dp/0521258596/ref=asap_B001HD35S8_1_4?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1416579799&sr=1-4) (2nd ed., Institute of Economic Affairs, 1995), and [*Competition and Currency*](http://www.amazon.com/Competition-Currency-Essays-Banking-Institute/dp/0814792472) (New York University Press, 1989).

He is coeditor of [*Renewing the Search for a Monetary Constitution* ](https://www.amazon.com/Renewing-Search-Monetary-Constitution-Governments/dp/1939709660/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=)(Cato Institute, 2015) and editor of [*The History of Gold and Silver*](https://www.amazon.com/History-Gold-Silver-Lawrence-White/dp/1851965173) (3 vols., Pickering and Chatto, 2000), [*Free Banking*](https://www.amazon.com/Banking-International-Library-Macroeconomic-Financial/dp/1852785977) (3 vols., Edward Elgar, 1993), and [*The Crisis in American Banking*](https://www.amazon.com/American-Banking-Political-Economy-Austrian/dp/0814792898) (NYU Press, 1993). His articles on monetary theory and banking history have appeared in the *American Economic Review*; *Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking*; and other leading professional journals.

White received the 2008 Distinguished Scholar Award of the Association for Private Enterprise Education. He has been a visiting research fellow at the American Institute for Economic Research, a visiting lecturer at the Swiss National Bank, and a visiting scholar at the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta. He is a coeditor of the online journal [*Econ Journal Watch*](https://econjwatch.org/) and hosts bimonthly podcasts for [*EJW Audio*](https://econjwatch.org/podcast/). He is a member of the Financial Markets Working Group of the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. He writes regularly for the Center for Monetary and Financial Alternatives publication [*Alt‑M*](http://www.alt-m.org/).

White holds a BA in economics from Harvard College and a PhD in economics from the University of California, Los Angeles.

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