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French miscellany

Kurt Schuler/May 5, 2012December 19, 2015 /1 Comment

Recently I talked to the French economist Philippe Nataf, who has written about France's era of partly free banking in the early 19th century (in The Experience of Free Banking, edited by Kevin Dowd and published in 1992).  He mentioned to me that Friedrich Hayek once told…

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Commodity Money, Digital Money, Fiat Money

Quasi-Commodity Money

George Selgin/February 7, 2012December 19, 2015 /42 Comments

Yeah, I know: it's been so long since I posted here that you'd have a right to wonder whether I decided to quit economics and enter a monastery, or had simply dropped dead. In fact I've done neither, though I've had reason enough to be tempted by…

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New Monies Are Really Cool Again

Bradley Jansen/May 24, 2011January 6, 2017 /1 Comment

In the internet boom of the 1990s, there was a rush of new alternative payment systems or currencies (Paypal being the most successful).  Forbes even ran a great cover story on this issue Politics for the Really Cool.  For whatever combination of reasons (the tech being too…

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