George Selgin is a senior fellow and director of the Center for Monetary and Financial Alternatives at the Cato Institute and Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of Georgia. His research covers a broad range of topics within the field of monetary economics, including monetary history, macroeconomic theory, and the history of monetary thought. He is the author of numerous articles and books, including The Theory of Free Banking, Good Money: Birmingham Button Makers, the Royal Mint, and The Beginnings of Modern Coinage, Money: Free & Unfree, Less Than Zero: The Case for a Falling Price Level in a Growing Economy, Floored! How a Misguided Fed Experiment Deepened and Prolonged the Great Recession, and The Menace of Fiscal QE.