Lawrence H. White

Lawrence H. White

  • Member, Financial Markets Working Group
  • Professor of Economics, George Mason University

Lawrence H. White is a professor of economics at George Mason University. Prior to position at George Mason, he was the F. A. Hayek Professor of Economic History in the Department of Economics, University of Missouri-St. Louis. He has been a visiting professor at the Queen's School of Management and Economics, Queen's University of Belfast, and a visiting scholar at the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta.

Professor White is the author of The Theory of Monetary Institutions (Blackwell, 1999), Free Banking in Britain (2nd ed., IEA, 1995), and Competition and Currency (NYU Press, 1989). He is the editor of several works, including The History of Gold and Silver (3 vols., Pickering and Chatto, 2000), The Crisis in American Banking (NYU Press, 1993), African Finance: Research and Reform (ICS Press, 1993), and Free Banking (3 vols., Edward Elgar, 1993). His articles on monetary theory and banking history have appeared in the American Economic Review, the Journal of Economic Literature, the Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking, and other leading professional journals.

Dr. White earned his PhD from the University of California, Los Angeles, and his AB from Harvard University.

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Reuters

McKinsey shocked by insider-trading allegations

Lawrence H. White | Oct 19, 2009
Lawrence J. White was quoted in a Reuters article about insider-trading allegations brought against McKinsey & Co and the company's use of new investment options to recruit college graduates. "It is like saying it is OK to take advantage of information you are learning," said White, a former regulator. "It may have been too short from…