Scott Sumner

Director of the Program on Monetary Policy for the Mercatus Center at George Mason University

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Scott Sumner Biography

Scott Sumner is the Ralph G. Hawtrey Chair of Monetary Policy at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. He is also Professor Emeritus at Bentley University and Research Fellow at the Independent Institute. In his writing and research, Sumner specializes in monetary policy, the role of the international gold market in the Great Depression, and the history of macroeconomic thought.

Named by Foreign Policy magazine in 2012 as one of the “top 100 global thinkers,” Sumner has published papers in academic journals including the Journal of Political Economy, Economic Inquiry, and the Journal of Money, Credit and Banking. He is author of the popular economics blog The Money Illusion and a contributor to EconLog. His work has appeared in media outlets nationwide and beyond, including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, BBC, CNBC, The Economist, Financial Times, Politico, The National Interest, and The American.

Sumner received his PhD and MA in economics from the University of Chicago and his BA in economics from the University of Wisconsin.

Scott Sumner Videos

  • Meet Scott Sumner: "The Blogger Who Saved the Economy ...
    Scott Sumner's new book, The Midas Paradox, is a story thirty years in the making. Learn more and buy the book from the Independent Institute: ...
  • Scott Sumner | Economists on the Welfare and Regulatory States ...
    The welfare state and the regulatory state are two policy areas that rarely elicit converging positions, but is it possible to find an economist...
  • Scott Sumner
    Professor Scott Sumner of Bentley University delivered the Adam Smith Institute's annual Adam Smith Lecture on Tuesday, June 17th 2014.

Scott Sumner Books

  • The Midas Paradox: Financial Markets, Government Policy Shocks, and the Great Depression
    The Midas Paradox: Financial Markets, Government Policy Shocks, and the Great Depression

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