Allan H. Meltzer

Allan Howard Meltzer (February 6, 1928 – May 8, 2017) was an American economist and professor of Political Economy at Carnegie Mellon University's Tepper School of Business and Institute for Politics and Strategy in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He was born in Boston, Massachusetts to a Jewish family. 

Meltzer specialized on studying monetary policy and the Federal Reserve System, and has authored several academic papers and books on the development and applications of monetary policy, and about the history of central banking in the US. (subscription required) Together with Karl Brunner, he created the Shadow Open Market Committee: a monetarist council that deeply criticized the Federal Open Market Committee.Reichart Alexandre & Abdelkader Slifi (2016). 'The Influence of Monetarism on Federal Reserve Policy during the 1980s.' Cahiers d'économie Politique/Papers in Political Economy, (1), pp. 107-150. https://www.cairn.info/revue-cahiers-d-economie-politique-2016-1-page-107.htm

Meltzer served as president of the Mont Pelerin Society for the 2012–2014 term.

Meltzer died on May 8, 2017 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania at the age of 89.

References

Other websites
 Allan Meltzer's home page  at Carnegie-Mellon
 Interview  with Meltzer from the Minnesota Fed's webpage
 Transcript of Meltzer's appearance on PBS's Think Tank program
 Source documents for Meltzer's A History of the Federal Reserve, Volumes I and II, at the FRASER historical documents site of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
 interview on National Public Radio's broadcast of September 26. 2008.


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Category:American economists
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