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Lewis E. Lehrman has written books and essays about economic, monetary, and financial policy as well as American history. Lehrman co-authored the book Money and the Coming World Order (1976) with renowned MIT economist Charles Kindleberger and others. He has written about economics in publications such as Harper's, The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Weekly Standard, Crisis, Policy Review, The American Spectator, and National Review. His writings about monetary economics earned him an appointment by President Ronald Reagan to the United States Gold Commission in 1981. Lewis Lehrman collaborated on a minority report of the commission, which was published as The Case for Gold (1982).
Lehrman has been named to the advisory board of the American Principles Project's Gold Standard 2012 initiative. He heads The Gold Standard Now—www.TheGoldStandardNow.org—a project of The Lehrman Institute. Established in 1972, The Lehrman Institute is a public policy foundation focused on history, economic and foreign policy, education, and local communities. He has been a trustee of the American Enterprise Institute, the Morgan Library, the Manhattan Institute, and the Heritage Foundation. He is a former Chairman of the Committee on Humanities of the Yale University Council.
Lehrman received the National Humanities Medal at the White House in 2005 for his teaching and studies of American history. In 2010, he was awarded the William E. Simon Prize for Lifetime Achievement in Social Entrepreneurship.
Lehrman earned his B.A. from Yale where he became a Carnegie Teaching Fellow on the Yale faculty and an M.A. from Harvard where he was a Woodrow Wilson Fellow. Lehrman has been awarded honorary degrees from Babson College (Babson Park, MA) where he was made a member of its Entrepreneurial Hall of Fame; Gettysburg College (Gettysburg, PA); Marymount University (Arlington, VA); and Thomas Aquinas College (Santa Paula, CA).
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