Allan H. Meltzer

Allan H. Meltzer was an American economist and Allan H. Meltzer Professor of Political Economy at Carnegie Mellon University's Tepper School of Business and Institute for Politics and Strategy in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Meltzer specialized on studying monetary policy and the US Federal Reserve System, and authored several academic papers and books on the development and applications of monetary policy, and about the history of central banking in the US. Together with Karl Brunner, he created the Shadow Open Market Committee: a monetarist council that deeply criticized the Federal Open Market Committee.

6 February 1928

Born on the same birth day (6 February): Aaron Burr • Abdul Ghaffar Khan • Aida Rybalko • Emperor Daigo • Harry Haywood • Henry Liddell • Irmgard Keun • Jean Beaudin • Jeremy Bowen • Jim McGirr • John Crank • Josef Frings • Mamie Van Doren • Mike Anderson (linebacker) • Muhammad Zafarullah Khan • Petr Hájek

Born in the same month (February 1928): Bruce Forsyth • Ciriaco De Mita • Hans Herrmann • Jean Adamson • Larry Gelbart • Michael Henshall • Stanley Baker • Tage Danielsson • Tempest Storm • Tom Aldredge • Tom Lantos • Vicente T. Blaz