George Selgin is one of the most prominent proponents of the Free Banking, he is BB&T Professor of Free Market Thought at West Virginia University and professor of economics at University of Georgia. He has also taught at University of Hong Kong and George Mason University. His PhD in economics is from New York University. His main areas of competency are Monetary History, Monetary Economics, Banking and Macroeconomics.

Articles by Selgin have been published in many scholarly journals including Constitutional Political Economy, International Economic Review, International Review of Law and Economics, Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, Review of Austrian Economics, Journal of Macroeconomics, Cato Journal. He has written chapters for several books as well as articles for Encyclopaedia Britannica and World Book Encyclopaedia.

Selgin has also been published in the Financial Times, the Wall Street Journal, USA Today. His latest (2008) book is "Good Money: Birmingham Button Makers, The Royal Mint, and the Beginnings of Modern Coinage, 1775-1821". 

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