Dorn has written widely on monetary policy and is coeditor with Anna J. Schwartz of The Search for Stable Money (University of Chicago Press). He is editor of The Future of Money in the Information Age, Monetary Alternatives: Rethinking Government Fiat Money, Monetary Policy in an Uncertain World: Ten Years after the Crisis, and Populism and the Future of the Fed (all published by the Cato Institute). Besides monetary policy, Dorn’s interests include trade, human rights, and economic reform in China. He is coeditor with Wang Xi of Economic Reform in China: Problems and Prospects (University of Chicago Press) and editor of China in the New Millennium (Cato Institute). His articles have appeared in numerous publications, including the Wall Street Journal, Asian Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Caixin, South China Morning Post, Hong Kong Economic Times, Investor’s Business Daily, and Australian Financial Review. He has testified before the U.S China Security Review Commission and the Congressional-Executive Commission on China. He has been a visiting scholar at Fudan University in Shanghai and is Professor Emeritus at Towson University, where he received the University System of Maryland’s highest honor, the USM Regents’ Faculty Award for Excellence in Research/Scholarship. From 1984 to 1990, Dorn served on the White House Commission on Presidential Scholars. He holds a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Virginia.
James A. Dorn
James A. Dorn is Senior Fellow Emeritus at the Cato Institute and served as editor of the Cato Journal from 1982 to 2021. He was the founder of Cato’s Annual Monetary Conference, which he directed from 1983–2022. The conference attracted monetary scholars and officials from around the world. In 2012, the Wall Street Journal called the annual monetary conference “especially influential by airing debates over a subject typically ignored by most of the media and think tanks.”
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