Richard H. Timberlake, Jr. (June 24, 1922 – May 22, 2020) was an American economist who was Professor of Economics at the University of Georgia for much of his career. He became a leading advocate of free banking, the belief that money should be issued by private companies, not by a government monopoly. He wrote about the Legal Tender Cases of the U.S. Supreme Court in his book Constitutional Money: A Review of the Supreme Court's Monetary Decisions.
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24 June 1922 Steubenville, Ohio
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Died |
22 May 2020 (aged 97) Georgia, U.S.
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Zodiac | Cancer |
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