David Glasner

David Glasner is an American economist who currently works at the Federal Trade Commission.^[1]

Glasner received his entire education at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), from which he received a BA in economics in 1970, MA in 1973 and PhD in 1977.^[1] Glasner's research interests include monetary theory, law and economics, and history of economic thought.^[2] 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."^[2] Since July 2011 Glasner maintains a blog called Uneasy Money, which is subtitled, "Commentary on monetary policy in the spirit of R. G. Hawtrey."^[3]

Publications

Glasner's notable publications include:^[2]

Books

• Politics, Prices, and Petroleum (Ballinger/Pacific Institute, 1985)
• Free Banking and Monetary Reform (Cambridge University Press, 1988)^[4]

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)^[5]

Articles

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• "The real-bills doctrine in the light of the law of reflux", History of Political Economy, 1992
• "A reinterpretation of classical monetary theory", Southern Economic Journal, 1985