• Discipline: F. A. Hayek Professor of Economic History
• Organization: University of Missouri - St. Louis

Lawrence H. White is F. A. Hayek Professor of Economic History at the University of Missouri - St. Louis, and Visiting Professor at the Queen's School of Management and Economics, Queen's University of Belfast. He is co-editor of a book series for Routledge, Foundations of the Market Economy; an Adjunct Scholar of the Cato Institute; and an Associate Editor of the Review of Austrian Economics.

Prof. White is a member of the Academic Advisory Council of the Institute of Economic Affairs and of the Council of Scholars of the Foundation for Economic Education. He has recently been a visiting scholar at the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta. 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, Creditand Banking, and other leading professional journals.