Lawrence H. White is a professor of economics at George Mason University and a distinguished senior fellow with the F. A. Hayek Program for Advanced Study in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. Prior to his position at George Mason, he was the F. A. Hayek Professor of Economic History in the Department of Economics, University of Missouri-St. Louis. He has been a visiting professor at the Queen’s School of Management and Economics, Queen’s University of Belfast, and a visiting scholar at the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta.
Professor White is the author of The Theory of Monetary Institutions, and Competition and Currency. He is the editor of several works, including The History of Gold and Silver, The Crisis in American Banking, African Finance: Research and Reform, and Free Banking. His articles on monetary theory and banking history have appeared in the American Economic Review, the Journal of Economic Literature, the Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking, and other leading professional journals. Professor White’s latest publication is Better Money: Gold, Fiat, or Bitcoin?, which was published in 2023.
Dr. White earned his PhD from the University of California, Los Angeles, and his AB from Harvard University.
