# Prof. William Silber is highlighted for his forthcoming biography of Paul Volcker

1 Faculty News May 11, 2012 ![Financial Times logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/uat_025700.jpg?itok=LSPbU2V1)>

Excerpt from [Financial Times](http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/73537d44-9aa4-11e1-9c98-00144feabdc0.html#axzz1uqqw097z) -- "[William Silber](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/william-silber)’s forthcoming biography of former US Federal Reserve chairman Paul Volcker will probably teach the median American reader more about macro-economics than Allan Meltzer’s multi-volume history of the Fed or Friedman and Schwartz’s Monetary History of the United States."

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