What is Allan H. Meltzer?
'''Allan Howard Meltzer''' (February 6, 1928 – May 8, 2017) was an [[Americans|American]] [[economist]] and professor of Political Economy at [[Carnegie Mellon University]]'s [[Tepper School of Business]] and Institute for Politics and Strategy in [[Pittsburgh]], [[Pennsylvania]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://business.tepper.cmu.edu/display_faculty.aspx?id=98 |title=Faculty Information |access-date=2007-06-11 |archive-date=2018-12-25 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181225014145/https://www.cmu.edu/tepper/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> He was born in [[Boston, Massachusetts]] to a Jewish family.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.pittsburghquarterly.com/index.php/What-Do-I-Know/allan-h-meltzer.html |title=A life’s recounting in the subject’s own words}}</ref> Meltzer specialized on studying monetary policy and the [[Federal Reserve System]], and has authored several academic papers and books on the development and applications of monetary policy, and about the history of [[central bank]]ing in the US.<ref>{{cite web |title=A History of the Federal Reserve |url=http://www.historycooperative.org/cgi-bin/justtop.cgi?act=justtop&url=http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/jah/91.1/br_93.html |access-date=2022-01-05 |archive-date=2012-08-03 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120803130402/http://www.historycooperative.org/cgi-bin/justtop.cgi?act=justtop&url=http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/jah/91.1/br_93.html |url-status=dead }} (subscription required)</ref> Together with [[Karl Brunner]], he created the Shadow Open Market Committee: a monetarist council that deeply criticized the Federal Open Market Committee.<ref>Reichart Alexandre & Abdelkader Slifi (2016). 'The Influence of Monetarism on Federal Reserve Policy during the 1980s.' Cahiers d'économie Politique/Papers in Political Economy, (1), pp. 107-150. https://www.cairn.info/revue-cahiers-d-economie-politique-2016-1-page-107.htm</ref> Meltzer served as president of the [[Mont Pelerin Society]] for the 2012–2014 term.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://w