Joseph Salerno

Professor of Economics, Lubin School of Business, Pace University

Joseph T. Salerno received his Ph.D. in economics from Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey. He is a professor of economics in the Finance and Graduate Economics Department in the Lubin School of Business of Pace University in New York. He is the editor of theQuarterly Journal of Austrian Economics and the Academic Vice President of the Ludwig von Mises Institute.

Dr. Salerno is a research associate of the Foundations of the Market Economy in the economics department at New York University and a policy expert for the Heritage Foundation in Washington, D.C. He is on the Board of Editors of Procesos de Mercado and Studia Humana.

Dr. Salerno has published over 50 articles and essays in refereed journals and scholarly books. He is the author ofMoney: Sound and Unsound (2010) and has edited or co-edited several books including, among others: Prices and Production and Other Works: F.A. Hayek on Money, the Business Cycle and the Gold Standard (2008); A History of Money and Banking in the United States, by Murray N. Rothbard (2005); Human Action, The Scholars Edition, by Ludwig von Mises (1998). He is co-editor of the five-volume collection, Monetary Reform and the Bellagio Group: Selected Letters and Papers of Fritz Machlup, Robert Triffin and William Fellner (Pickering & Chatto Publishers, forthcoming in 2014).

Dr. Salerno’s area of expertise is monetary theory and policy, international monetary reform, and Austrian economics. He has testified before Congress on the topics of inflation and of fractional reserve banking. He has published numerous op eds online at mises.org, forbes.com, ChristianScienceMonitor.com, WallStreet Oasis.com, and EconomicPolicyJournal.com.

Dr. Salerno lectures frequently throughout the U.S. and internationally, and more than fifty of his lectures are available online. He is also frequently interviewed on broadcast and online radio shows, including Bloomberg Radio. He has appeared on CSPAN and Fox News, Fox Business Network, and New York Lawline television. An instructional video on the Federal Reserve System he participated in has garnered more than 800,000 hits on YouTube.

Participant In:

Why Do Economists Disagree?

Saturday, October 13th
2:30 - 4:30PM

Past Event

A pre-election roundtable of a politically diverse group of noted economic theorists exploring their philosophical convergences and divergences. Free and open to the public.