Richard Timberlake
Professor of economics (1922–2020) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Richard Henry Timberlake Jr. (June 24, 1922 – May 22, 2020) was an American economist who was Professor of Economics at the University of Georgia for much of his career. He became a leading advocate of free banking, the belief that money should be issued by private companies, not by a government monopoly. He wrote about the Legal Tender Cases of the U.S. Supreme Court in his book Constitutional Money: A Review of the Supreme Court's Monetary Decisions.
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Richard Timberlake | |
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Born | Richard Henry Timberlake, Jr.[1] (1922-06-24)June 24, 1922 Steubenville, Ohio, U.S. |
Died | May 22, 2020(2020-05-22) (aged 97) |
Nationality | American |
Academic career | |
Institution | University of Georgia (1964–1990) |
Field | Economics |
School or tradition | Free Banking |
Alma mater | University of Chicago (Ph.D.), 1957 |
Influences | Friedrich Hayek, Milton Friedman, Earl J. Hamilton |
Contributions | Real bills doctrine as the origin of the Great Depression, free banking |
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