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George A. Selgin

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First Name:George
Middle Name:A.
Last Name:Selgin
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http://www.terry.uga.edu/~selgin/
Terminal Degree:1986 Department of Economics; New York University (NYU) (from RePEc Genealogy)

Affiliation

Department of Economics
Terry College of Business
University of Georgia

Athens, Georgia (United States)
http://www.terry.uga.edu/economics/
RePEc:edi:deugaus (more details at EDIRC)

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Working papers

  1. George Selgin, 2019. "Is Non-State Money Possible?," mBank - CASE Seminar Proceedings 0158, CASE-Center for Social and Economic Research.
  2. George Selgin, 2007. "Monopoly, Competition, and Great Britain’s “Big Problem of Small Change”," Working Papers 7003, Economic History Society.
  3. Selgin, G., 1993. "Are Banking Crises a Free-Market Phenomenon?," Papers 386e, Georgia - College of Business Administration, Department of Economics.
  4. Selgin, G., 1993. "In Defence of Bank Suspension," Papers 367, Georgia - College of Business Administration, Department of Economics.
  5. Selgin, G., 1993. "On Ensuring the Acceptability of a New Fiat Money," Papers 368, Georgia - College of Business Administration, Department of Economics.
  6. Selgin, G.A. & White, L.H., 1993. "How Would the Invisible Hand Handle Money?," Papers 380e, Georgia - College of Business Administration, Department of Economics.
  7. Selgin, George A. & White, Lawrence H., 1985. "The Evolution of a Free Banking System," Working Papers 85-38, C.V. Starr Center for Applied Economics, New York University.

Articles

  1. George Selgin, 2021. "The fiscal and monetary response to COVID‐19: What the Great Depression has – and hasn't – taught us," Economic Affairs, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 41(1), pages 3-20, February.
  2. Selgin, George & Sumner, Scott, 2017. "Guest Editors’ Introduction: Monetary rules for a post-crisis world," Journal of Macroeconomics, Elsevier, vol. 54(PA), pages 1-6.
  3. George Selgin, 2016. "Real and Pseudo Monetary Rules," Cato Journal, Cato Journal, Cato Institute, vol. 36(2), pages 279-296, Spring/Su.
  4. Selgin, George, 2015. "Synthetic commodity money," Journal of Financial Stability, Elsevier, vol. 17(C), pages 92-99.
  5. Selgin, George & Beckworth, David & Bahadir, Berrak, 2015. "The productivity gap: Monetary policy, the subprime boom, and the post-2001 productivity surge," Journal of Policy Modeling, Elsevier, vol. 37(2), pages 189-207.
  6. George Selgin, 2015. "Kenneth Quickenden , Sally Baggott , and Malcolm Dick , eds., Matthew Boulton: enterprising industrialist of the Enlightenment ( Farnham : Ashgate , 2013 . Pp. xviii + 294. 26 illus. ISBN 9781409422181 Hbk. £79)," Economic History Review, Economic History Society, vol. 68(3), pages 1066-1067, August.
  7. George Selgin, 2015. "Fatalistically Flawed: A Review Essay on Fragile by Design, by Charles W. Calomiris and Stephen H. Haber," International Finance, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 18(1), pages 109-128, March.
  8. George Selgin, 2015. "Law, Legislation, and the Gold Standard," Cato Journal, Cato Journal, Cato Institute, vol. 35(2), pages 251-272, Spring/Su.
  9. George Selgin, 2014. "Operation Twist-the-Truth: How the Federal Reserve Misrepresents Its History and Performance," Cato Journal, Cato Journal, Cato Institute, vol. 34(2), pages 229-263, Spring/Su.
  10. George Selgin, 2013. "Incredible Commitments: Why the EMU Is Destroying Both Europe and Itself," Cato Journal, Cato Journal, Cato Institute, vol. 33(1), pages 143-154, Winter.
  11. William D. Lastrapes & George Selgin, 2012. "Banknotes And Economic Growth," Scottish Journal of Political Economy, Scottish Economic Society, vol. 59(4), pages 390-418, September.
  12. Selgin, George & Lastrapes, William D. & White, Lawrence H., 2012. "Has the Fed been a failure?," Journal of Macroeconomics, Elsevier, vol. 34(3), pages 569-596.
  13. George Selgin, 2012. "Mere quibbles: Bagus and Howden’s critique of the theory of free banking," The Review of Austrian Economics, Springer;Society for the Development of Austrian Economics, vol. 25(2), pages 131-148, June.
  14. George Selgin, 2012. "L Street: Bagehotian Prescriptions for a 21st Century Money Market," Cato Journal, Cato Journal, Cato Institute, vol. 32(2), pages 303-332, Spring/Su.
  15. George Selgin & John L. Turner, 2011. "Strong Steam, Weak Patents, or the Myth of Watt's Innovation-Blocking Monopoly, Exploded," Journal of Law and Economics, University of Chicago Press, vol. 54(4), pages 841-861.
  16. George A. Selgin, 2010. "The Futility of Central Banking," Cato Journal, Cato Journal, Cato Institute, vol. 30(3), pages 465-473, Fall.
  17. Selgin, George, 2010. "The institutional roots of Great Britain's ‘big problem of small change’," European Review of Economic History, Cambridge University Press, vol. 14(2), pages 305-334, August.
  18. Selgin George & Turner John L., 2009. "Watt, Again? Boldrin and Levine Still Exaggerate the Adverse Effect of Patents on the Progress of Steam Power," Review of Law & Economics, De Gruyter, vol. 5(3), pages 1101-1113, December.
  19. George Selgin, 2008. "Milton Friedman and the Case against Currency Monopoly," Cato Journal, Cato Journal, Cato Institute, vol. 28(2), pages 287-301, Winter.
  20. George Selgin & David VanHoose, 2007. "The Euro and world inflation," Oxford Economic Papers, Oxford University Press, vol. 59(2), pages 171-193, April.
  21. George Selgin & John Turner, 2006. "James Watt As Intellectual Monopolist: Comment On Boldrin And Levine," International Economic Review, Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania and Osaka University Institute of Social and Economic Research Association, vol. 47(4), pages 1341-1348, November.
  22. George Selgin, 2005. "Currency Privatization as a Substitute for Currency Boards and Dollarization," Cato Journal, Cato Journal, Cato Institute, vol. 25(1), pages 141-151, Winter.
  23. George Selgin & Lawrence White, 2005. "Credible Currency: A Constitutional Perspective," Constitutional Political Economy, Springer, vol. 16(1), pages 71-83, January.
  24. Selgin, George, 2004. "Wholesale payments: questioning the market-failure hypothesis," International Review of Law and Economics, Elsevier, vol. 24(3), pages 333-350, September.
  25. George Selgin, 2003. "Adaptive Learning and the Transition to Fiat Money," Economic Journal, Royal Economic Society, vol. 113(484), pages 147-165, January.
  26. George Selgin, 2003. "Steam, hot air, and small change: Matthew Boulton and the reform of Britain's coinage," Economic History Review, Economic History Society, vol. 56(3), pages 478-509, August.
  27. Selgin, George, 2001. "In-Concert Overexpansion and the Precautionary Demand for Bank Reserves," Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, Blackwell Publishing, vol. 33(2), pages 294-300, May.
  28. Leland B. Yeager, 2000. "Exchange Rates between What Sorts of Currencies?," Cato Journal, Cato Journal, Cato Institute, vol. 20(1), Spring/Su.
  29. Selgin, George, 2000. "The Suppression of State Banknotes: A Reconsideration," Economic Inquiry, Western Economic Association International, vol. 38(4), pages 600-615, October.
  30. Jason Taylor & George Selgin, 1999. "By our bootstraps: Origins and effects of the high-wage doctrine and the minimum wage," Journal of Labor Research, Springer, vol. 20(4), pages 447-462, December.
  31. George Selgin, 1999. "The Great Depression: An International Disaster of Perverse Economic Policies By Thomas E. Hall and J. David Ferguson. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1998. Pp. xvii, 194. $42.50," Southern Economic Journal, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 65(3), pages 653-656, January.
  32. Selgin, George & White, Lawrence H, 1999. "A Fiscal Theory of Government's Role in Money," Economic Inquiry, Western Economic Association International, vol. 37(1), pages 154-165, January.
  33. Selgin, George, 1999. "The Money Interest and the Public Interest: American Monetary Thought, 1920–1970. By Perry G. Mehrling. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1997. Pp. xiv, 283. $45.00," The Journal of Economic History, Cambridge University Press, vol. 59(1), pages 256-257, March.
  34. George Selgin, 1999. "Hayek versus Keynes on How the Price Level Ought to Behave," History of Political Economy, Duke University Press, vol. 31(4), pages 699-721, Winter.
  35. George Selgin & Comment by Richard H. Timberlake, 1999. "Ludwig von Mises and the Case for Gold," Cato Journal, Cato Journal, Cato Institute, vol. 19(2), pages 259-277, Fall.
  36. George Selgin, 1998. "Competition and Monopoly in the Federal Reserve System, 1914‐1951: A Microeconomics Approach to Monetary History By Mark Toma. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1997. Pp. xiv, 132. $49.95," Southern Economic Journal, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 65(1), pages 187-190, July.
  37. Lastrapes, William D. & Selgin, Grorge, 1997. "The Check Tax: Fiscal Folly and the Great Monetary Contraction," The Journal of Economic History, Cambridge University Press, vol. 57(4), pages 859-878, December.
  38. George Selgin, 1997. "A Regulatory Placebo? or, The Strange Case of Dr. Kaufman and Mr. Seir," Cato Journal, Cato Journal, Cato Institute, vol. 17(1), pages 91-98, Spring/Su.
  39. Selgin, George & White, Lawrence H, 1997. "The Option Clause in Scottish Banking: A Comment," Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, Blackwell Publishing, vol. 29(2), pages 270-273, May.
  40. Selgin, George, 1996. "Salvaging Gresham's Law: The Good, the Bad, and the Illegal," Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, Blackwell Publishing, vol. 28(4), pages 637-649, November.
  41. Selgin, George & White, Lawrence H, 1996. "In Defense of Fiduciary Media--Or, We Are Not Devo(lutionists), We Are Misesians!," The Review of Austrian Economics, Springer;Society for the Development of Austrian Economics, vol. 9(2), pages 83-107.
  42. George A. Selgin & Lawrence H. White, 1996. "Money and the Invisible Hand: A Correction," Journal of Economic Literature, American Economic Association, vol. 34(1), pages 124-125, March.
  43. George Selgin, 1995. "Bank Self-Regulation: Comment on Bordo and Schwartz," Cato Journal, Cato Journal, Cato Institute, vol. 14(3), pages 481-492, Winter.
  44. Selgin, George, 1995. "The case for a "productivity norm": Comment on Dowd," Journal of Macroeconomics, Elsevier, vol. 17(4), pages 733-740.
  45. George Selgin, 1995. "The “Productivity Norm†versus Zero Inflation in the History of Economic Thought," History of Political Economy, Duke University Press, vol. 27(4), pages 705-735, Winter.
  46. Lastrapes, William D. & Selgin, George, 1995. "The liquidity effect: Identifying short-run interest rate dynamics using long-run restrictions," Journal of Macroeconomics, Elsevier, vol. 17(3), pages 387-404.
  47. Selgin, George A. & White, Lawrence H., 1994. "Monetary Reform and the Redemption of National Bank Notes, 1863–1913," Business History Review, Cambridge University Press, vol. 68(2), pages 205-243, July.
  48. Selgin, George A, 1994. "On Ensuring the Acceptability of a New Fiat Money," Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, Blackwell Publishing, vol. 26(4), pages 808-826, November.
  49. Lastrapes, William D & Selgin, George A, 1994. "Buffer-Stock Money: Interpreting Short-Run Dynamics Using Long-Run Restrictions," Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, Blackwell Publishing, vol. 26(1), pages 34-54, February.
  50. Selgin, George, 1994. "Free Banking and Monetary Control," Economic Journal, Royal Economic Society, vol. 104(427), pages 1449-1459, November.
  51. George A. Selgin & Lawrence H. White, 1994. "How Would the Invisible Hand Handle Money?," Journal of Economic Literature, American Economic Association, vol. 32(4), pages 1718-1749, December.
  52. George A. Selgin, 1990. "Monetary Equilibrium and the Productivity Norm of Price-Level Policy," Cato Journal, Cato Journal, Cato Institute, vol. 10(1), pages 265-287, Spring/Su.
  53. Donald J. Boudreaux & George A. Selgin, 1990. "L. Albert Hahn: A Precursor of Keynesianism and the Monetarist Counterrevolution," History of Political Economy, Duke University Press, vol. 22(2), pages 261-279, Summer.
  54. George Selgin & Frank Forman & Richard Langlois & James Buchanan & Hardy Bouillon & Jonathan Riley & Heinrich Ursprung & Alan Hamlin, 1990. "Reviews," Constitutional Political Economy, Springer, vol. 1(2), pages 83-109, March.
  55. George A. Selgin, 1989. "Legal Restrictions, Financial Weakening, and the Lender of Last Resort," Cato Journal, Cato Journal, Cato Institute, vol. 9(2), pages 429-469, Fall.
  56. George A. Selgin, 1988. "Accommodating Changes in the Relative Demand for Currency: Free Banking vs. Central Banking," Cato Journal, Cato Journal, Cato Institute, vol. 7(3), pages 621-641, Winter.
  57. Selgin, George A & White, Lawrence H, 1987. "The Evaluation of a Free Banking System," Economic Inquiry, Western Economic Association International, vol. 25(3), pages 439-457, July.

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Books

  1. Selgin, George, 2025. "False Dawn," University of Chicago Press Economics Books, University of Chicago Press, edition 1, number 9780226832937, August.

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  1. NEP-MAC: Macroeconomics (1) 2019-03-04
  2. NEP-MON: Monetary Economics (1) 2019-03-04
  3. NEP-PAY: Payment Systems and Financial Technology (1) 2019-03-04

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