David Glasner is an American economist who currently works at the

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. Glasner received his entire education at the

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(UCLA), from which he received a BA in Economics in 1970, MA in 1973 and PhD in 1977. Glasner's research interests include

monetary theory Monetary economics is the branch of economics that studies the different competing theories of money: it provides a framework for analyzing money and considers its functions (such as medium of exchange, store of value and unit of account), and it ...

law and economics Law and economics, or economic analysis of law, is the application of microeconomic theory to the analysis of law, which emerged primarily from scholars of the Chicago school of economics. Economic concepts are used to explain the effects of laws ...

, and

history of economic thought History (derived ) is the systematic study and the documentation of the human activity. The time period of event before the History of writing#Inventions of writing, invention of writing systems is considered prehistory. "History" is an umbr ...

. He defends an "undogmatic version of liberalism against the more extreme versions of libertarianism on the one hand and socialism and nationalistic or statist forms of conservatism on the other." Since July 2011 Glasner maintains a blog called ''Uneasy Money'', which is subtitled, "Commentary on monetary policy in the spirit of R. G. Hawtrey."

Publications

Glasner's notable publications include:

Books

*''Politics, Prices, and Petroleum'' (Ballinger/Pacific Institute, 1985) *''Free Banking and Monetary Reform'' (Cambridge University Press, 1988)

Chapters

*"An Evolutionary Theory of the State Monopoly over Money" in ''Money and the Nation State: The Financial Revolution, Government, and the World Monetary System'', edited by Kevin Dowd and Richard Timberlake (Transaction Publishers, 1998)

Articles

*"The real-bills doctrine in the light of the law of reflux", ''

History of Political Economy The ''History of Political Economy'' is a journal published by Duke University Press, focusing on economics Economics () is the social science that studies the Production (economics), production, distribution (economics), distribution, a ...

'', 1992 *"A reinterpretation of classical monetary theory", ''

Southern Economic Journal Southern may refer to: Businesses * China Southern Airlines, airline based in Guangzhou, China * Southern Airways, defunct US airline * Southern Air, air cargo transportation company based in Norwalk, Connecticut, US * Southern Airways Express, M ...

, 1985

References

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