Steve H. Hanke is an American economist specializing in international economics, particularly monetary policy.

He holds a doctoral degree from the University of Colorado at Boulder

University of Colorado at Boulder

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. Earlier in his teaching career, he taught economics at the Colorado School of Mines

Colorado School of Mines

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 and the University of California, Berkeley

University of California, Berkeley

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. , he is a professor of applied economics

Applied economics

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 at Johns Hopkins University

Johns Hopkins University

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.

In 1981 and '82, during the Reagan

Ronald Reagan

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 administration, he was a Senior Economist on the Council of Economic Advisors. In 1995 and '96 he served as an advisor to Domingo Cavallo

Domingo Cavallo

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, the Minister of Economy of Argentina

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. He has also held formal economic-advisory positions with Uruguay

Uruguay

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 and four countries in eastern Europe

Eastern Europe

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, especially Bulgaria

Bulgaria

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 where the Lev

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 is pegged successfully to the Euro

Euro

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 through a Currency board

Currency board

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 that he created. In 1997 he began writing his "Point Of View" columns for Forbes

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magazine. In 1998 he became special counselor to the Economic and Monetary Resilience Council of Indonesia

Indonesia

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, and continues in that role .

he holds the following additional positions:

• Senior fellow of the Cato Institute
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• Columnist with Forbes magazine
• A director of the Democratic Century Fund
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  , an investment fund in emerging markets managed by the Emerging Markets Group.
• Member of the advisory board of the IMF Assessment Project.
• Fellow at the World Economic Forum
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   in Geneva
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  .
• On the editorial board of the Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics.

Partial bibliography

• The Montenegrin Marka (1999),
• The Revolution in Development Economics (1998),
• Currency Boards: The Financing of Stabilization (1997),
• Alternative Monetary Regimes for Jamaica (1996, .pdf),
• Currency Boards for Developing Countries (1994),
• Russian Currency and Finance (1993),
• Monetary reform for a free Estonia: A Currency board solution (1992),
• Currency Reform for a Market-oriented Cuba (1992),
• Capital Markets and development (1991),
• Monetary Reform and the Development of a yugoslav Market economy (1991),
• Privatization and development (1988),
• Toward Growth: A Blueprint for Economic rebirth in Israel, (1988).
• "Zimbabwe: Hyperinflation to Growth" (2008)

Complete List of Steve Hanke's publications (.pdf)

External links

• Bio Page at the Johns Hopkins University Institute for Applied Economics and the Study of Business Enterprise (Contains links to a full Publications List and CV)
• Cato Institute expert page
• Archive of columns at Forbes Magazine
• Steve Hanke's CV