Instead of the Fed: Brown Bag Seminar

  • December 3, 2015
  • 12:15 PM - 2:00 CST
  • Schreiber Center, Room 1001
  • Yinyue Wang, ywang50@luc.edu
  • $0
  • Faculty, Staff, Students
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    Join us for a brown bag lunch at the Quinlan School of Business. George Selgin of the Cato Institute will present on *Instead of the Fed: How Financial Deregulation Could Have Ended Financial Crises A Century Ago And How It Still Can.*

    George Selgin is a senior fellow and director of the Center for Monetary and Financial Alternatives at the Cato Institute 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. He is the author of The Theory of Free Banking (Rowman & Littlefield, 1988); Bank Deregulation and Monetary Order (Routledge, 1996); Less Than Zero: The Case for a Falling Price Level in a Growing Economy (The Institute of Economic Affairs, 1997); and, most recently, Good Money: Birmingham Button Makers, the Royal Mint, and the Beginnings of Modern Coinage (University of Michigan Press, 2008).