Lawrence H. White, President

Lawrence H. White is a professor of economics at George Mason University. He is a Distinguished Senior Fellow of the F. A. Hayek Program for Advanced Study in Philosophy, Politics and Economics at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, and a senior scholar with the Cato Institute’s Center for Monetary and Financial Alternatives. He previously taught at New York University, University of Georgia, and University of Missouri-St. Louis. 

Prof. White specializes in the theory and history of banking and money. He is the author of several books and editor of several volumes, including Better Money: Gold, Fiat, or Bitcoin? (Cambridge University Press, 2023), The Clash of Economic Ideas (Cambridge University Press, 2012), and The Theory of Monetary Institutions (Wiley-Blackwell, 1999). His scholarly articles on monetary theory and banking history have appeared in American Economic Review, Journal of Economic Literature, Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking, and other leading professional journals. 

Benjamin Powell, Secretary/Treasurer

Benjamin Powell is the executive director of the Free Market Institute and a professor of economics in the Jerry S. Rawls College of Business Administration at Texas Tech University. He is a past president of The Association of Private Enterprise Education, and a senior fellow with the Independent Institute. He previously taught at Suffolk University and San Jose State University after earning his Ph.D. in Economics at George Mason University.

Prof. Powell is the author of Out of Poverty: Sweatshops in the Global Economy (Cambridge University Press, 2014) and Wretched Refuse: The Political Economy of Immigration and Institutions (Cambridge University Press, 2020), as well as editor or co-editor of 5 other books. He is author of more than 75 scholarly journal articles and policy studies. His research has been reported in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Economist, and numerous other outlets. He has also published widely in the popular press and appeared on most major TV news networks.