Allan H. Meltzer
Allan Howard Meltzer (February 6, 1928 – May 8, 2017) was an American economist and professor of Political Economy at Carnegie Mellon University's Tepper School of Business and Institute for Politics and Strategy in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.[1] He was born in Boston, Massachusetts to a Jewish family.[2]
Meltzer specialized on studying monetary policy and the Federal Reserve System, and has authored several academic papers and books on the development and applications of monetary policy, and about the history of central banking in the US.[3] Together with Karl Brunner, he created the Shadow Open Market Committee: a monetarist council that deeply criticized the Federal Open Market Committee.[4]
Meltzer served as president of the Mont Pelerin Society for the 2012–2014 term.[5]
Meltzer died on May 8, 2017 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania at the age of 89.[6]
References[change | change source]
- ↑ "Faculty Information". Archived from the original on 2018-12-25. Retrieved 2007-06-11.
- ↑ "A life's recounting in the subject's own words".
- ↑ "A History of the Federal Reserve". Archived from the original on 2012-08-03. Retrieved 2022-01-05. (subscription required)
- ↑ Reichart Alexandre & Abdelkader Slifi (2016). 'The Influence of Monetarism on Federal Reserve Policy during the 1980s.' Cahiers d'économie Politique/Papers in Political Economy, (1), pp. 107-150. https://www.cairn.info/revue-cahiers-d-economie-politique-2016-1-page-107.htm
- ↑ "The Mont Pelerin Society". Archived from the original on 2014-12-13. Retrieved 2012-12-25.
- ↑ "Federal Reserve expert Allan H. Meltzer has died". Seattle Times. May 9, 2017. Retrieved May 9, 2017.
Other websites[change | change source]
- Allan Meltzer's home page Archived 2018-12-25 at the Wayback Machine at Carnegie-Mellon
- Interview Archived 2007-06-08 at the Wayback Machine with Meltzer from the Minnesota Fed's webpage
- Transcript of Meltzer's appearance on PBS's Think Tank program
- Source documents for Meltzer's A History of the Federal Reserve, Volumes I and II, at the FRASER historical documents site of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
- interview on National Public Radio's broadcast of September 26. 2008.
- Appearances on C-SPAN
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