Nicolas Cachanosky

Senior Fellow, Sound Money Project

Dr. Cachanosky is Associate Professor of Economics and Director of the Center for Free Enterprise at The University of Texas at El Paso Woody L. Hunt College of Business. He is also Fellow of the UCEMA Friedman-Hayek Center for the Study of a Free Society. He served as President of the Association of Private Enterprise Education (APEE, 2021-2022) and in the Board of Directors at the Mont Pelerin Society (MPS, 2018-2022).

He earned a Licentiate in Economics from the Pontificia Universidad Católica Argentina, a M.A. in Economics and Political Sciences from the Escuela Superior de Economía y Administración de Empresas (ESEADE), and his Ph.D. in Economics from Suffolk University, Boston, MA.

Dr. Cachanosky is author of Reflexiones Sobre la Economía Argentina (Instituto Acton Argentina, 2017), Monetary Equilibrium and Nominal Income Targeting (Routledge, 2019), and co-author of Austrian Capital Theory: A Modern Survey of the Essentials (Cambridge University Press, 2019), Capital and Finance: Theory and History (Routledge, 2020), and Dolarización: Una Solución para la Argentina (Editorial Claridad, 2022).

Dr. Cachanosky’s research has been published in outlets such as Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Public Choice, Journal of Institutional Economics, Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance, and Journal of the History of Economic Thought among other outlets.

Articles

1/12/15

NGDP targeting: is five percent too much?

That’s the title of a new working paper that you can find here. The topic is closely related to a previous post that I wrote here at the Sound Money Project. In that […]

12/17/14

Selgin’s Bitdollar and a simple step toward sound money

There are two advantages in the Bitdollar idea.

12/1/14

Does monetary equilibrium equal NGDP targeting?

In the last recent years, the idea of NGDP targeting as a better, if not the optimal, target for central banks has received special attention. Surely the idea is not […]

11/21/14

Sound Money Project Breakfast in New York City

During a special session following the 2014 Liberty Forum & Freedom Dinner, Dr. Judy Shelton and Seth Lipsky, founder and editor of the New York Sun, presented a session on […]

11/17/14

Recap of the 32nd Cato Monetary Conference

On November 6th, The Cato Institute in Washington DC held the 32nd Cato Monetary Conference. Last year, the topic of the conference was an assessment of the 100 years of […]

11/5/14

Is the U.S. the right geographical benchmark for the Fed?

Last Wednesday, the Federal Reserve announced that the QE policy has reached its end. After commenting on the improvement of U.S. economic indicators, the announcement states that “[a]ccordingly, the Committee […]

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10/15/14

How does monetary policy affect resource allocation?

If monetary policy had no effect on economic performance, there would be no point in having any particular monetary policy in effect. This is the same as admitting that, at […]

9/29/14

Lenders of last resort

Scotland’s vote for independence resulted in a negative. There won’t be, then, further discussions about what Scotland should do with its monetary institutions. Still, there is one more issue that […]

9/11/14

Sterlingization in Scotland

Admittedly, I haven’t been closely following the vote for Scotland’s independence from Great Britain. Neither am I closely following the debates of what Scotland, should it vote for independence, do […]

8/26/14

A model for a free market monetary reform

Despite the approval and respect central banks receive around the world, it is questionable that even the best of them managed to outperform previous monetary institutions (see, for instance, here). […]

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