David Glasner is an American economist who currently works at the Federal Trade Commission.[1]
Glasner received his entire education at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), from which he received a BA in Economics in 1970, MA in 1973 and PhD in 1977.[1] Glasner's research interests include monetary theory, law and economics, and history of economic thought.[2] He defends an "undogmatic version of liberalism against the more extreme versions of libertarianism on the one hand and socialism and nationalistic or statist forms of conservatism on the other."[2] Since July 2011 Glasner maintains a blog called Uneasy Money, which is subtitled, "Commentary on monetary policy in the spirit of R. G. Hawtrey."[3]