Name Leland Yeager | Role Economist Education Oberlin College | |
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Born November 4, 1924 (age 99) ( 1924-11-04 ) Oak Park, Illinois Influences Ludwig von Mises, Murray Rothbard, Friedrich Hayek Influenced by Ludwig von Mises, Friedrich Hayek, Murray Rothbard Fields Monetary policy, International trade Books Ethics As Social Science, The fluttering veil, Experiences with stopping i, Is the Market a Test of Tr, International Monetary Relations Similar People Ludwig von Mises, Friedrich Hayek, Murray Rothbard, George Selgin, Israel Kirzner | ||
School or tradition Virginia School | ||
Leland B. Yeager (; born November 4, 1924) is an American economist and an expert on monetary policy and international trade.
Biography
Yeager graduated from Oberlin College in 1948 with an A.B. and was granted an M.A. from Columbia University in 1949 and a Ph.D. from there in 1952. He had previously served in the United States Army in World War II, translating Japanese codes. He temporarily served as the Vice President of the Interlingua Institute from 1997 to 1998 after Deanna Hammond died. He has been a regular contributor to Liberty magazine and an occasional contributor to the "Mises Daily".
He is a Professor Emeritus at both Auburn University and the University of Virginia. His monetary writings have strongly opposed Keynesian orthodoxy and have emphasized the crucial role of money in business cycles. His 1956 essay, "A Cash-Balance Interpretation of Depression" maintained that depression was caused by "an excess demand for money, in the sense that people want to hold more money than exists." In this, he is a member of the monetarist school exemplified by Milton Friedman.
His subsequent writings have tilted towards a laissez-faire approach to monetary reform. In his 1989 paper "Can Monetary Disequilibrium Be Eliminated", he advocates that government "be banished from any role in the monetary system other than that of defining a unit of account or numeraire."