Steve Hanke
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| Born |
December 29, 1942 Macon, Georgia, United States |
| Nationality | American |
| Institution |
Colorado School of Mines University of California, Berkeley Johns Hopkins University |
| Field |
Monetary economics Natural resource economics Financial economics International economics |
| School or tradition |
Free-market economics |
| Alma mater | University of Colorado Boulder |
| Influences |
Friedrich Hayek Milton Friedman Robert Mundell Kenneth Boulding Peter Thomas Bauer Ronald Coase |
| Contributions |
Currency board Research Dollarization Research Hyperinflation Research Hanke-Henry Permanent Calendar Privatization Research Water resources Research |
Steve H. Hanke (/ˈhæŋki/) is an American applied economist at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. He is also a Senior Fellow and Director of the Troubled Currencies Project at the Cato Institute in Washington, DC, and Co-Director of the Johns Hopkins Institute for Applied Economics, Global Health, and the Study of Business Enterprise in Baltimore, MD.
Hanke is known for his work as currency reformer in emerging-market countries such as Argentina, Estonia, Lithuania, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, and Ecuador. He was a Senior Economist with President Ronald Reagan’s Council of Economic Advisers from 1981 to 1982, and has served as an adviser to heads of state in countries throughout Asia, South America, Europe, and the Middle East. He is also known for his pioneering work on currency boards, dollarization, hyperinflation, water pricing and demand, benefit-cost analysis, privatization, and other topics in applied economics.
Hanke has written extensively as a columnist for Forbes magazine, Globe Asia, and other publications. He is also a successful currency and commodity trader.
Steve Hanke was born in Macon, Georgia in 1942 and grew up in Atlantic, Iowa, where he attended Atlantic High School. He then attended the University of Colorado Boulder, where he was a member of the Phi Delta Theta Fraternity. Hanke earned a B.S. in Business Administration (1964) and a Ph.D. in Economics (1969) from the University of Colorado.
Hanke's first academic appointment was at the Colorado School of Mines in 1966, when he was 24. During this time, Hanke developed and taught courses in mineral and petroleum economics, while completing his Ph.D. dissertation on the effects of meter installation on municipal water demand.
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