September 8, 2014 Reading Time: 3 minutes

We at the Atlas Network’s Sound Money Project are proud and excited to announce that three new Fellows and a Senior Fellow will be joining our team and helping to advance our mission of raising awareness about the problems of our current monetary system. These new Fellows include:

Jerry L. Jordan, Ph.D.

Dr. Jordan is a Senior Fellow of Atlas Network and of the Sound Money project. He was President of the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland for 11 years, served as a member of President Reagan’s Council of Economic Advisors and also was a Member of the U.S. Gold Commission. He served as Chief Economist for two commercial banks and as Dean and Professor of Economics at the University of New Mexico. Jordan began his professional career at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, where his last position was Sr. Vice President and Director of Research. On leave of absence from the St. Louis Fed, he served in 1971-72 as a consultant to the Deutsche Bundesbank in Frankfurt, W. Germany.

Professionally, he is a member of the Mont Pelerin Society, a Senior Fellow of the Fraser Institute and the Cato Institute, and President of the Pacific Academy for Advanced Studies. He is also a past President and Director of the National Association of Business Economists and former Director of the Western Economic Association. Dr. Jordan holds a Ph.D. in economics from UCLA and honorary doctorates from Denison University, Capital University and Universidad Francisco Marroquin.

See Dr. Jordan’s latest posts below:
Hayek on sensible monetary policy
We are taxed enough already
Are we still all inflationists now?

Nicolás Cachanosky, Ph.D.

Nicolás is an Assistant Professor of Economics at Metropolitan State University of Denver. His field of research is macroeconomics and monetary policy and his research has been published in outlets such as The Review of Austrian Economics, The Independent Review, Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance, and The Journal of the History of Economic Thought, among others. He has also authored work on flexible dollarization and free banking in Argentina. He holds an economics degree from Pontificia Universidad Católica Argentina, a Masters in Economics and Political Sciences from ESEADE and a Ph.D. in economics from Suffolk University.

See Dr. Cachanosky’s latest posts below:
A model for a free market monetary reform
Jobs, and Obama’s Common Sense
Missing the Point

Thomas L. Hogan, Ph.D.

Thomas is an Assistant Professor of Finance at the Johnson Center for Political Economy at Troy University. Dr. Hogan was formerly Assistant Professor of Economics at West Texas A&M University. He has worked for Merrill Lynch’s commodity trading group and for hedge funds in the United States and Europe. He has been a Research Fellow at the Cato Institute and the American Institute for Economic Research and was formerly a consultant to the World Bank. He holds Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Business Administration from the University of Texas at Austin and earned his Ph.D. in Economics from George Mason University.

See Dr. Hogan’s latest posts below:
What is monetary policy?

William J. Luther, Ph.D.

William is an Assistant Professor of Economics at Kenyon College. He has been a fellow with the Mercatus Center at George Mason University and at the American Institute for Economic Research. His academic interests include monetary theory and history, with special interest in the role that governments play in determining the medium of exchange. In this regard, he has considered the monetary regime of Somalia following state collapse in 1991 and the crypto-currency Bitcoin. Dr. Luther graduated summa cum laude from Capital University, earning a B.A. in Economics and earned his M.A. and Ph.D. in economics at George Mason University.

See Dr. Luther’s latest posts below:
Friedman vs. Hayek on currency competition 

We are excited to introduce these experts  to you and look forward to sharing their future contributions with you!

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