Lawrence H. White, Ph.D.
Fredrich A. Hayek Endowed Professor
Department of Economics
e-mail: white@umsl.edu
webpage: http://www.umsl.edu/~whitelh/
Before joining the department in 2000, Professor White taught economics at the University of Georgia and at New York University. He has been Visiting Professor at the Queen's University of Belfast, visiting fellow at the Australian National University, visiting scholar at the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, and visiting lecturer at the Swiss National Bank. He received his Ph.D. in 1982 from UCLA. Professor White is the author of The Theory of Monetary Institutions (Balckwell, 1999), Free Banking in Britain (2nd ed., IEA, 1995), and Competition and Currency (NYU Press, 1989). He is the editor of The History of Gold and Silver (3 vols., Pickering and Chattto, 2000, The Crisis in American Banking (NYU Press, 1992), African Finance: Research and Reform (ICS Press, 1993), and Free Banking (3 vols., Edward Elgar, 1993). His articles on monetary theory and banking history have appeared in the American Economic Review, the Journal of Economic Literature, the Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking, the Business History Review, and other leading professional journals. Professor White is co-editor of a book series for Routledge, entitled Foundations of the Market Economy; an Associate Editor of the Review of Austrian Economics; and a contributing editor of The Freeman (Foundation for Economic Education, Irvington, NY). He is an Adjunct Scholar of the Cato Institute (Washington, DC), a member of the Academic Advisory Council of the Institute of Economic Affairs (London), and a member of the Council of Scholars of the Foundation for Economic Education.