George A. Selgin, PhD is a professor of Economics in the Terry College of Business at the University of Georgia. His principal research areas are monetary and banking theory, monetary history, and macroeconomics. Dr. Selgin is known for his research agenda in Private issue of coinage. This belongs to a the free banking and Austrian School of economics. He has co-authored with Lawrence H. White on the subject of Free Banking. Dr. Selgin's work in this area has been applied to the idea of currency dollarization and private competition for note issue in dollarized countries. The University of Georgia, located approximately 70 miles north-east of Atlanta in Athens, Georgia, is the largest institution of higher learning and research in the State of Georgia. ... The Austrian School is a school of economic thought that rejects opposing economists reliance on methods used in natural science for the study of human action, and instead bases its formalism of economics on relationships through logic or introspection called praxeology. ... Free banking is a theory of banking which involves only market forces, with a conspicuous absence of central banks and any banking regulations, with only the general commercial laws applicable. ... Dollarization occurs when the inhabitants of a country use foreign currency in parallel to or instead of the domestic currency. ...
Education
New York University PhD 1986 New York University (NYU) is a major research university in New York City. ...
Books
ISBN 0415140560 Bank Deregulation and Monetary Order (1996)
ISBN 0536589305 Readings in Money and Banking (1995)
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