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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Positively valued fiat money after the sovereign disappears: The case of Somalia
Authors: WJ Luther, LH White
Publication: Review of Behavioral Economics 3 (3-4), 311-334, 2016
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Regulating Bitcoin: On What Grounds?
Authors: WJ Luther
Publication: Reframing Financial Markets Regulation, 391-415, 2016
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The Implicit Costs of Government Deposit Insurance
Authors: WJ Luther, TL Hogan
Publication: Journal of Private Enterprise 31 (2), 2016
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The implicit costs of government deposit insurance
Authors: TL Hogan, WJ Luther
Publication: Journal of Private Enterprise 31 (2), 1-13, 2016
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The optimal Austrian business cycle theory
Authors: AW Salter, WJ Luther
Publication: Studies in Austrian Macroeconomics 20, 45-60, 2016
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The political economy of bitcoin
Authors: JR Hendrickson, TL Hogan, WJ Luther
Publication: Economic Inquiry 54 (2), 925-939, 2016
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Bitcoin is Memory
Authors: J Olson, WJ Luther
Publication: Journal of Prices & Markets 3 (3), 22-33, 2015
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Gunnar Heinsohn and Otto Steiger, Ownership Economics: On the Foundations of Interest, Money, Markets, Business Cycles and Economic Development, edited …
Authors: WJ Luther
Publication: Journal of the History of Economic Thought 37 (1), 155-157, 2015
