Joseph T. Salerno received his PhD in economics from Rutgers University. He is professor emeritus of economics in Lubin School of Business of Pace University in New York City. He is the editor of the Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics and the Academic Vice President of the Ludwig von Mises Institute where he serves on the Board of Directors. Professor Salerno also held the inaugural Peterson-Luddy Chair in Austrian Economics at the Mises Institute and the inaugural John V. Denson II Endowed Professorship in the economics department at Auburn University.
Professor Salerno was a research associate of the Foundations of the Market Economy in the economics department at New York University (1991-2018) and is on the Board of Editors of six academic journals. Salerno has published over 70 articles and essays in refereed journals and scholarly books. His latest book is The Austrian School of Economics in the 21st Century: Evolution and Impact (Springer 2022) coedited with Annette Godart-van der Kroon. He is the author of Money: Sound and Unsound (Mises Institute 2010). His latest work Murray N. Rothbard: The Development of a Misesian Economist, co-authored with Patrick Newman, will be published by the Mises Institute in 2026. Recently, he has published articles appearing in peer-review journals including Oxford Economic Papers, The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought, The Journal of Institutional Economics, and the Cambridge Journal of Economics.
He has testified before US Congress several times and published numerous op eds online at mises.org, forbes.com, Christian Science Monitor.com, Wall Street Oasis.com, and Economic Policy Journal.com.
Salerno lectures frequently throughout the US and internationally, and more than fifty of his lectures are available online. He has also been interviewed on broadcast and online radio and TV shows including Bloomberg radio, CSPAN, Fox News, Fox Business Network, New York Lawline, and RTtelevision.
He blogs at www.mises.org/Blog.