Alexander W. Salter

Senior Fellow, Sound Money Project

Alexander William Salter is the Georgie G. Snyder Associate Professor of Economics in the Rawls College of Business and the Comparative Economics Research Fellow with the Free Market Institute, both at Texas Tech University. He is a co-author of Money and the Rule of Law: Generality and Predictability in Monetary Institutions, published by Cambridge University Press. In addition to his numerous scholarly articles, he has published nearly 300 opinion pieces in leading national outlets such as the Wall Street Journal, National Review, Fox News Opinion, and The Hill.

Salter earned his M.A. and Ph.D. in Economics at George Mason University and his B.A. in Economics at Occidental College. He was an AIER Summer Fellowship Program participant in 2011.

Alexander W. Salter

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5/20/15

What does monetary policy have to do with interest rates?

Very little, really. Despite what we teach our students in Principles classes, and in some more advanced classes on Macroeconomics and Money & Banking, the relationship between changes in the […]
Alexander W. Salter

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5/6/15

Monetary equilibrium and monetary institutions

I am very excited to join the Sound Money Project and contribute to the understanding of monetary systems that are conducive to economic stability. To begin, I would like to […]

Alexander W. Salter

What does monetary policy have to do with interest rates?

Monetary equilibrium and monetary institutions