Lawrence H. White is a monetary economist and free-banking scholar who specializes in the theory and history of banking, private money, and cryptocurrencies. Lawrence H. White's Twitter Score is 53 out of 1000 (a Good rating) as of August 2026, ranking #16,696 (top 5%) among 483,944 tracked accounts.
Lawrence H. White serves as Emeritus Faculty at George Mason University and as a Senior Fellow at the Cato Institute Center for Monetary and Financial Alternatives. He is also a Distinguished Senior Fellow of the F. A. Hayek Program for Advanced Study in Philosophy, Politics and Economics at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, and co-edits Econ Journal Watch while contributing to Alt-M.
Lawrence H. White authored the 2023 book Better Money: Gold, Fiat, or Bitcoin?, which examines competing monetary standards, and published an early academic treatment of digital assets in his 2015 Cato Journal article "The Market for Cryptocurrencies." His research has long engaged questions about private currency systems, well before such topics entered mainstream financial discourse. Lawrence H. White has been active on Twitter since 2014 and has published 6,784 posts. He has been mentioned by 77 accounts, with 488 total mentions.
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