Texas Tech University

Bryan Cutsinger

Assistant Director and Research Assistant Professor

Dr. Bryan Custinger, Research Assistant Professor

Bryan Cutsinger is a research assistant professor at the Free Market Institute at Texas Tech University and an assistant professor of economics at the Norris-Vincent College of Business at Angelo State University. He is also the assistant director for Free Market Institute programming at Angelo State University.

Dr. Cutsinger received his B.A. in economics from the University of Colorado at Boulder, and his M.A. and Ph.D. from George Mason University, where he was awarded the William P. Snavely Award for Outstanding Achievement in Graduate Studies in Economics.

Prior to joining Angelo State University and the Free Market Institute, Dr. Cutsinger was a Hayek Fellow with the F.A. Hayek Program for the Advanced Study of Philosophy, Politics, and Economics. Dr. Cutsinger's work has been published in Explorations in Economic History and The Journal of Private Enterprise. He has also appeared on several economics podcasts, including Macro Musings.

Dr. Cutsinger's current work focuses on monetary rules and alternative monetary institutions as well as the organization of political markets. His primary fields of research are monetary and political economics.

For more information about Dr. Cutsinger, please visit www.bryancutsinger.com or his Social Science Research Network (SSRN) page: Bryan Cutsinger.

Recent Publications

Cutsinger, B. & Luther, W. J. (Forthcoming). Seigniorage Payments and the Federal Reserve's New Operating Regime. Economics Letters.

Cutsinger, B., Marsella, A., & Zhou, Y. (2022). Insuring Legislative Wealth Transfers: Theory and Evidence. Public Choice, 192: 127-144.

Cutsinger, B. (2022). Peter J. Boettke, Alexander William Salter, and Daniel J. Smith: Money and the Rule of Law: Generality and Predictability in Monetary Institutions. PublicChoice, 191: 273-276.

Cutsinger, B. P. & Geloso, V. (2022). The Wild Card: Colonial Paper Money in French North America, 1685 to 1719. European Review of Economic History, 26(2): 185-207.

Cutsinger, B. P. (2021). Forced Savings and Political Malinvestment: An Application of Steve Horwitz's Microfoundations and Microeconomics. The Review of Austrian Economics, 34(2): 311-322.

Cachanosky, N., Cutsinger, B. P., Hogan, T. L., Luther, W. J. & Salter, A. W. (2021). The Federal Reserve's Response to the COVID-19 Contraction: An Initial Appraisal. Southern Economic Journal, 87(4): 1152-1174.

Working Papers

Recent Op-Eds and Short Articles

February 5, 2022 — Modern monetary theorists have no answer for raging inflationWashington Examiner

January 21, 2022 — Powell Steers Clear of Naïve View on InflationNational Review

December 6, 2021 — The Fed and the Limits of DiscretionNational Review


Contact

Email: bryan.cutsinger@angelo.edu
Phone: (325) 486-6430
Office: ASU Station #10908
Angelo State University

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