Kevin Dowd is professor of finance and economics at Durham College in the UK. He’s a lifelong libertarian and his considering is closely influenced by Austrian and Public Alternative economics. His primary areas of curiosity are free banking, central banking and personal cash. Dr. Dowd is an adjunct scholar on the Cato Institute, analysis fellow of the Unbiased Institute, senior fellow of the Adam Smith Institute (London) and of the Cobden Centre for Sincere Cash and Social Progress, and member of Economists for Free Commerce (previously Economists for Brexit). Amongst his books, he’s editor (with Richard Timberlake) of the e book, Cash and the Nation State: The Monetary Revolution, Authorities, and the World Financial System.