Allan H. Meltzer

Allan H. Meltzer holds a chair named for him—The Allan H. Meltzer University Professor of Political Economy—at Carnegie Mellon University. He is the author of the landmark History of the Federal Reserve and other influential books and monographs. He has been a member of the President's Council of Economic Advisers as well as an adviser to the Congressional Budget Office and Federal Reserve Bank of New York.

WHY CAPITALISM? (Oxford University Press, 2012)