George Selgin is Director of the Cato Institute’s Center for Monetary and Financial Alternatives, a Senior Affiliated Scholar at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, and...view moreGeorge Selgin is Director of the Cato Institute’s Center for Monetary and Financial Alternatives, a Senior Affiliated Scholar at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, and Professor Emeritus at the University of Georgia. He is the author of Money: Free and Unfree (2017); Good Money: Birmingham Button Makers, the Royal Mint, and the Beginnings of Modern Coinage (2008); and the IEA Hobart Paper Less Than Zero: The Case for a Falling Price Level in a Growing Economy (1997).view less