George Selgin

George Selgin is Senior Fellow and Director Emeritus of the Cato Institute’s Center for Monetary and Financial Alternatives and Professor Emeritus of economics at the University of Georgia. His research covers a broad range of topics within the field of monetary economics, including monetary history, macroeconomic theory, and the history of monetary thought.

His many writings include The Theory of Free Banking: Money Supply under Competitive Note Issue (1988), Less than Zero: The Case for a Falling Price Level in a Growing Economy (1997); Good Money: Birmongham Button Makers, the Royal Mint, and the Beginnings of Modern Coinage, 1775-1821 (2003); Money, Free and Unfree (2017), and Menace of Fiscal QE (2020). He book-in-progress, “False Dawn: The New Deal and the Promise of Recovery, 1933-1946,” will be published by the University of Chicago Press in 2024. Selgin lives in Granada, Spain, where he moved in 2022.