Alexander Salter

Comparative Economics Research Fellow

Dr. Alexander Salter, Comparative Economics Research Fellow

Alexander Salter is Comparative Economics Research Fellow at the Free Market Institute and Georgie G. Snyder Associate Professor of Economics in the Jerry S. Rawls College of Business Administration.

Alex's research and teaching interests include comparative political economy, institutional analysis, and the economics of governance. He is interested in monetary economics and macroeconomics, and especially the question of which monetary and macroeconomic institutions best promote economic stability. He is the coauthor of Money and the Rule of Law: Generality and Predictability in Monetary Institutions (with Peter Boettke and Daniel J. Smith) (Cambridge University Press, 2021) and The Medieval Constitution of Liberty: Political Foundations of Liberalism in the West (with Andrew Young) (University of Michigan Press, 2023). He is the author of The Political Economy of Distributism: Property, Liberty, and the Common Good (The Catholic University of America Press, 2023) and The Spirit of '76: Libertarianism and American Renewal (American Institute for Economic Research, 2023).

Alex has authored more than 80 articles in peer-reviewed scholarly journals including Journal of Macroeconomics, American Political Science Review, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Contemporary Economic Policy, Journal of Institutional Economics, and Public Choice. He also serves as an associate editor of The Journal of Private Enterprise.

Alex is a research fellow at Independent Institute and a senior fellow with the American Institute for Economic Research (AIER) Sound Money Project, for which he authors a regular column. His popular writing has appeared in several other publications including The Wall Street Journal, Washington Examiner, National Review, RealClearPolitics, and City Journal.

Alex earned his Ph.D. in economics from George Mason University. Before joining Texas Tech in September 2015, he taught at Berry College. At Texas Tech, Alex teaches an undergraduate course in Applied Business Economics and a gradate course in Austrian Economics. He has also taught a graduate course in Public Choice.

For more information about Dr. Salter, please visit www.awsalter.com or his Social Science Research Network (SSRN) page: Alexander William Salter.