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free banking friedrich hayek # 708090 150px american george selgin
 university of georgia macroeconomics history , monetary theory and banking theory , monetary 1957 f pse331 george selgin new -lrb- b.a. -rrb- 1979 york university -lrb- phd -rrb- 1986 drew university
george selgin

george a. selgin -lrb- ; born 1957 -rrb- is the director of the cato institute 's center for monetary and financial alternatives , where he is editor-in-chief of the center 's blog , `` alt-m '' , professor emeritus of economics at the terry college of business at the university of georgia , and an associate editor of `` econ journal watch '' .
selgin formerly taught at george mason university , the university of hong kong , and west virginia university .
