William J. Luther

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Director, Sound Money Project

William J. Luther is the Director of AIER’s Sound Money Project and an Associate Professor of Economics at Florida Atlantic University. His research focuses primarily on questions of currency acceptance. He has published articles in leading scholarly journals, including Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Economic Inquiry, Journal of Institutional Economics, Public Choice, and Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance. His popular writings have appeared in The Economist, Forbes, and U.S. News & World Report. His work has been featured by major media outlets, including NPR, Wall Street Journal, The Guardian, TIME Magazine, National Review, Fox Nation, and VICE News. Luther earned his M.A. and Ph.D. in Economics at George Mason University and his B.A. in Economics at Capital University. He was an AIER Summer Fellowship Program participant in 2010 and 2011.

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Research Publications by William J. Luther

Title: Preface to On the Origins of Money by Carl Menger


Authors: WJ Luther

Publication: On the Origins of Money, 2014

Title: Synthesizing state and spontaneous order theories of money


Authors: AW Salter, WJ Luther

Publication: Entangled Political Economy 18, 161-178, 2014

Title: The Battle of Bretton Woods: John Maynard Keynes, Harry Dexter White, and the Making of a New World Order


Authors: WJ Luther

Publication: The Independent Review 18 (3), 468-470, 2014

Title: The explicit costs of government deposit insurance


Authors: TL Hogan, WJ Luther

Publication: Cato J. 34, 145, 2014

Title: The explicit costs of government deposit insurance


Authors: TL Hogan, WJ Luther

Publication: Cato Journal 34 (1), 145-170, 2014

Title: Bitcoin is memory


Authors: WJ Luther, J Olson

Publication: Journal of Prices & Markets 3 (3), 2015, 2013