Joseph T. Salerno received his Ph.D. in economics from Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey. He is a professor of economics in the Finance and Graduate Economics Department in the Lubin School of Business of Pace University in New York. He is the editor of the Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics and the Academic Vice President of the Ludwig von Mises Institute
Dr. Salerno is a research associate of the Foundations of the Market Economy in the economics department at New York University and a policy expert for the Heritage Foundation in Washington, D.C. He is on the Board of Editors of Procesos de Mercado and Studia Humana.
Dr. Salerno has published over 50 articles and essays in refereed journals and scholarly books. He is the author of Money: Sound and Unsound (2010) and has edited or co-edited several books including among others: Prices and Production and Other Works: F.A. Hayek on Money, the Business Cycle and the Gold Standard (2008); A History of Money and Banking in the United States by Murray N. Rothbard (2005); Human Action The Scholars Edition by Ludwig von Mises (1998). He is a co-editor of the five-volume collection Monetary Reform and the Bellagio Group: Selected Letters and Papers of Fritz Machlup, Robert Triffin and William Fellner forthcoming Chatto Pickering (2014).
Dr. Salerno’s area of expertise is monetary theory and policy, international monetary reform, and Austrian economics. He has testified before Congress on the topics of inflation and of fractional reserve banking. He has published numerous op- eds online at mises.org, forbes.com, Christian Science Monitor.com, Wall Street Oasis.com, and Economic Policy Journal.com.
Dr. Salerno lectures frequently throughout the U.S. and internationally, and more than fifty of his lectures are available online. He is also frequently interviewed on broadcast and online radio shows including Bloomberg radio. He has appeared on CSPAN, Fox News, Fox Business Network, and New York Lawline television. An instructional video on the Federal Reserve System he participated in has garnered more than 800,000 hits on YouTube.