The Institute of Economic Affairs and CQS are pleased to invite you to the Annual IEA Hayek Memorial Lecture. The lecture will be delivered by George Selgin, speaking on the subject “Price Stability and Financial Stability without Central Banks – lessons from the past for the future.”

Lecture (6:30pm for) 6:45pm – 8:15pm

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About George

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.

Publications:

• 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


• Good Money: Birmingham Button Makers, the Royal Mint, and the Beginnings of Modern Coinage (University of Michigan Press, 2008).

Selgin is one of the founders, along with Kevin Dowd and Lawrence H. White, of the Modern Free Banking School, which draws its inspiration from the writings of F. A. Hayek on denationalization of money and choice in currency.

Selgin retired from the University of Georgia to join Cato in September 2014. He has also taught at George Mason University, the University of Hong Kong, and West Virginia University. He holds a BA in economics and zoology from Drew University, and a PhD in economics from New York University.