George Selgin is Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of Georgia and a former director of the Center for Monetary and Financial Alternatives at the Cato Institute.
He is the author of numerous journal articles and books on monetary and macroeconomic theory, history, and policy, including The Theory of Free Banking (Rowman & Littlefield, 1988), Good Money: Birmingham Button Makers, the Royal Mint, and the Beginnings of Modern Coinage (University of Michigan Press, 2008), Money: Free and Unfree (The Cato Institute, 2015), Less Than Zero: The Case for a Falling Price Level in a Growing Economy (The Cato Institute, 2018), Floored! How a Misguided Fed Experiment Deepened and Prolonged the Great Recession (The Cato Institute, 2018), The Menace of Fiscal QE (The Cato Institute, 2019), and False Dawn: The New Deal and the Promise of Recovery, 1933-1947 (University of Chicago Press, 2025).
He lives in Granada, Spain.
