William J. Luther
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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Title: Bitcoin and the future of digital payments
Authors: WJ Luther
Publication: The Independent Review 20 (3), 397-404, 2016
Title: Cryptocurrencies, network effects, and switching costs
Authors: WJ Luther
Publication: Contemporary Economic Policy 34 (3), 553-571, 2016
Title: Mises and the Moderns on the Inessentiality of Money in Equilibrium
Authors: WJ Luther
Publication: The Review of Austrian Economics 29, 1-13, 2016
Title: On the empirical relevance of the Mises–Hayek theory of the trade cycle
Authors: WJ Luther, M Cohen
Publication: Studies in Austrian Macroeconomics 20, 79-103, 2016
Title: 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
Title: Regulating Bitcoin: On What Grounds?
Authors: WJ Luther
Publication: Reframing Financial Markets Regulation, 391-415, 2016
