Macro Musings Podcast Event: Money and the Rule of Law
A live event with Daniel Smith and Alexander Salter, hosted by David Beckworth
In-person / livestream event at MTSU (Student Union Building, Ballroom C)
May 18, 2021 at 1 p.m. (CDT)
Video coming soon.

About the event: You’re invited to attend a special event at MTSU featuring a live recording of the highly popular macroeconomics podcast Macro Musings, presented by the PERI. Hosted by former US Treasury economist David Beckworth, this podcast will feature an interview with monetary policy scholars Daniel Smith (MTSU) and Alexander Salter (Texas Tech University), authors of the forthcoming book with Peter Boettke, Money and the Rule of Law (Cambridge University Press).

In their discussion, Smith and Salter will explore how the Fed is unable to provide macroeconomic stability as myriad problems continue to undermine discretionary central banking.

Audience members will be able to participate in a Q&A session following the discussion. This free event is open to the public in a socially distanced setting under university health and safety guidelines. Advanced registration is no longer required for in-person guests.

About the participants:

• Dr. Daniel J. Smith is the Director of the Political Economy Research Institute and Professor of Economics in the Jones College of Business at Middle Tennessee State University. He serves as the North American Co-editor of The Review of Austrian Economics and is the President-elect of the Society for the Development of Austrian Economics. His academic research and policy work uses Austrian and public choice economics to analyze private and public governance institutions. He is the co-author of Money and the Rule of Law: Generality and Predictability in Monetary Institutions (Cambridge University Press), written with Peter J. Boettke and Alexander W. Salter, and The Political Economy of Public Pensions (Cambridge University Press), written with Eileen Norcross.
• Dr. Alexander W. Salter is the Comparative Economics Research Fellow at the Free Market Institute and an associate professor of economics in the Jerry S. Rawls College of Business Administration at Texas Tech University. Dr. Salter's research focuses on comparative political economy and institutional analysis. He is interested in monetary economics and macroeconomics, and especially the question of which monetary and macroeconomic institutions best promote economic stability. He is also an associate editor of the Journal of Private Enterprise, a Sound Money Project senior fellow, and a Young Voices senior contributor.
• Dr. David Beckworth is a Senior Research Fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University and a former international economist at the US Department of the Treasury. He is the author of Boom and Bust Banking: The Causes and Cures of the Great Recession. His research focuses on monetary policy and previously taught at several academic institutions.