Lawrence H. White
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Lawrence Henry White (born November 27, 1954) is an American economics professor at
Career
White earned his
Articles by White on monetary theory and banking history have appeared in the
Economic views
White has been influenced by
White's Free Banking in Britain analyzes the efficient systems of free banking in Scotland for 128 years until it was suppressed by the British Parliament which was having problems with its own banking system.[11] The book brought respectability in academic economics to the idea of free banking. However, some supporters of free banking who prefer commodity backed currency to private fractional reserve currency disagree with his portrayal of the Scottish banking system as truly free.[12][13] White has countered their arguments.[6] However, White does not dismiss the possibility that in a free market people might prefer a commodity standard, such as the gold standard.[14]
White's 1999 book The Theory of Monetary Institutions is a theoretical and historical account of both existing and alternative monetary regimes used as an advanced undergraduate and graduate-level economics text. Professor Steve Hanke writes that "White provides a uniquely insightful perspective into a difficult and controversial area, and his arguments and analysis are unbeatable."[15]
White, who has been a visiting scholar at the
White received an Honorary Doctoral Degree at Universidad Francisco Marroquín in 2011 due his research on monetary policy and monetary history.[22]
Books
- The Clash of Economic Ideas: The Great Policy Debates and Experiments of the Last Hundred Years, Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 2012, ISBN 978-1107012424
- Free Banking in Britain: Theory, Experience and Debate 1800–1845 (2nd ed.). London: ISBN 0-255-36375-3.
- Editor, The pure theory of capital, Volume 12 of The Collected Works of F. A. Hayek, University of Chicago Press, 2007, ISBN 978-0-226-32099-1
- Editor, The History of Gold and Silver, 3 vols., London: Pickering and Chatto, 2000.
- The Theory of Monetary Institutions, Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1999 ISBN 0-631-21214-0
- Editor, The Crisis in American Banking, New York: New York University Press, 1993
- Editor, Free Banking, 3 vols., Aldershot, UK: Edward Elgar, 1993
- Editor, African Finance: Research and Reform, San Francisco: ICS Press, 1993
- Competition and Currency: Essays on Free Banking and Money, New York: New York University Press, 1992, ISBN 0-8147-9247-2
- Editor, William Leggett, Democratick Editorials: Essays in Jacksonian Political Economy, Indianapolis: Liberty Press, 1984
- Free Banking in Britain: Theory, experience and debate 1800-1845. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1984 – via Internet Archive.
References
- , Freedom Daily, November 2001.
- ^ a b Lawrence H. White Curriculum Vitae Archived 2010-05-30 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Lawrence H. White faculty page Archived 2009-05-20 at the Wayback Machine at the Mercatus Center, George Mason University.
- ^ Review of Austrian Economics Editorial Board
- ^ Lawrence H. White faculty page Archived 2011-02-22 at the Wayback Machine, George Mason University.
- ^ ISSN 0889-3047.
- ISBN 978-1-84855-330-9
- Ludwig Von Mises Institute, 1988.
- ^ Lawrence H. White, Competitive Money, Inside and Out Archived 2011-02-16 at the Wayback Machine, Cato Institute Journal 3, Spring 1983, 281–99.
- ISBN 978-0-8223-0842-3
- Lew Rockwell.com, January 29, 2008.
- ^ Larry J. Sechrest, Whites Free-Banking Thesis: A Case of Mistaken Identity, The Review of Austrian Economics.
- ^ Murray N. Rothbard, The Myth of Free Banking in Scotland Archived 2011-07-22 at the Wayback Machine, The Review of Austrian Economics.
- ISBN 978-0-945466-11-6.
- ^ The Theory of Monetary Institutions information page Archived 2010-06-02 at the Wayback Machine at the University of Missouri–St. Louis web site.
- ^ See several articles at Lawrence H. White page at Cato Institute website and White letter on the Federal Reserve Archived 2010-11-28 at the Wayback Machine, July 22, 2009.
- Lew Rockwell.com, September 28, 2009.
- ^ Lawrence H. White, "The Federal Reserve’s Influence on Research in Monetary Economics", Econ Journal Watch, 2005.
- Orange County Registereditorial, January 27, 2009.
- New York Times, November 15, 2009
- Christian Science Monitor, October 6, 2010.
- ^ Honorary Doctoral Degrees, November 2011 at the Universidad Francisco Marroquín
External links
- Lawrence H. White Curriculum Vitae with full list of publications
- White's bio at the Mercatus Center
- Faculty page at the University of Missouri – St. Louis
- Appearances on C-SPAN
- List of published writings at Cato Institute web site
- Audiovisual Media, NewMedia Universidad Francisco Marroquín
- Library of Economics and Liberty.
- Lawrence H. White publications indexed by Google Scholar