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Joseph T. Salerno
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Joseph T. Salerno received his PhD in economics from Rutgers University. He is professor emeritus of economics in the Lubin School of Business of Pace University in New York City. He is the editor of the Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics and the Academic Vice President of the Mises Institute where he serves on the Board of Directors. Professor Salerno also held the inaugural Peterson-Luddy Chair in Austrian Economics at the Mises Institute and the inaugural John V. Denson II Endowed Professorship in the economics department at Auburn University.
Professor Salerno is a research associate of the Foundations of the Market Economy in the economics department at New York University (1991-2018) and is on the Board of Editors of five academic journals. Salerno has published over 70 articles and essays in refereed journals and scholarly books. His latest book is The Austrian School of Economics in the 21st Century: Evolution and Impact (Springer 2022) coedited with Annette Godart-van der Kroon. He is the author of Money: Sound and Unsound (Mises Institute 2010) and is currently writing a book with Patrick Newman on the development of Murray N. Rothbard as a Misesian economist. In the last few years, he has published several articles appearing in peer-review journals including Oxford Economic Papers, The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought, and The Journal of Institutional Economics.
He has testified before US Congress several times and published numerous op eds online at mises.org, forbes.com, Christian Science Monitor.com, Wall Street Oasis.com, and Economic Policy Journal.com.
Salerno lectures frequently throughout the US and internationally, and more than 50 of his lectures are available online. He has also been interviewed on broadcast and online radio and TV shows including Bloomberg radio, CSPAN, Fox News, Fox Business Network, New York Lawline, and RTtelevision.
He blogs at Power & Market.
Latest work
From the May-June Issue of The Misesian. Few would deny that Human Action is the foundational work of modern Austrian economics and that this is a compelling reason for reading the book. But there is...
What we may call the “spending illusion” is perhaps the gravest error in the history of economic thought and has been deeply embedded in economics since the early twentieth century.
