Richard Timberlake

Richard Timberlake
Born
Richard Henry Timberlake, Jr.[1]

(1922-06-24)June 24, 1922
DiedMay 22, 2020(2020-05-22) (aged 97)
NationalityAmerican
Academic career
FieldEconomics
InstitutionUniversity of Georgia (1964–1990)
School or
tradition
Free Banking
Alma materUniversity of Chicago (Ph.D.), 1957
InfluencesFriedrich Hayek, Milton Friedman, Earl J. Hamilton
ContributionsReal bills doctrine as the origin of the Great Depression, free banking

Richard Henry Timberlake Jr. (June 24, 1922 – May 22, 2020) was an American economist who was Professor of Economics at the University of Georgia for much of his career. He became a leading advocate of free banking, the belief that money should be issued by private companies, not by a government monopoly. He wrote about the Legal Tender Cases of the U.S. Supreme Court in his book Constitutional Money: A Review of the Supreme Court's Monetary Decisions.

  1. ^ "Directory of Members". 1969.