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: The implicit costs of government deposit insurance
Authors: TL Hogan, WJ Luther
Publication: Available at SSRN 2567510, 2015
Title: The monetary mechanism of stateless Somalia
Authors: WJ Luther
Publication: Public Choice 165 (1-2), 45-58, 2015
Title: Using NPR’s planet money podcast in principles of macroeconomics
Authors: WJ Luther
Publication: Journal of Private Enterprise 30 (1), 143-154, 2015
Title: An empirical analysis of the Austrian business cycle theory
Authors: WJ Luther, M Cohen
Publication: Atlantic Economic Journal 42, 153-169, 2014
Title: Can Bitcoin become a major currency?
Authors: WJ Luther, LH White
Publication: Cayman Financial Review 36, 78-79, 2014
Title: Evenly rotating economy: A new modeling technique for an old equilibrium construct
Authors: WJ Luther
Publication: The Review of Austrian Economics 27, 403-417, 2014
