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Free banking and classical liberalism: a potted history

Larry White/June 4, 2011December 19, 2015 /23 Comments

Free banking as a policy ideal is the result of applying the norms of classical liberalism to money and banking.  Classical liberalism upholds individual liberty and private property rights, including freedom of contract, under the rule of law.  It opposes rule by unconstrained authorities.  Skipping over ancient…

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Economic History, Free Banking

What’s old, continued: the New Monetary Economics

Kurt Schuler/June 3, 2011December 19, 2015 /2 Comments

At Marginal Revolution, Tyler Cowen has a post on the New Monetary Economics. He says, If you’re looking for a definition of the NME, I would say it is the study of unusual monetary arrangements involving either explicit prices for monetary media of exchange (i.e., separating money’s…

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Economic History, The Fed & Central Banks

Were the Pre-Federal Reserve Days So Bad?

Vern McKinley/June 2, 2011December 19, 2015 /9 Comments

"In the next few days the situation would grow much worse, and the interconnected nature of the relationships among the nation's financial institutions would only enable the contagion to spread." The question I pose is which set of circumstances is the author of this passage describing? Was…

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Economic History, Free Banking, Money & Politics, The Fed & Central Banks

The State and 100 Percent Reserve Banking

George Selgin/May 31, 2011December 19, 2015 /64 Comments

Free bankers have been fighting a war on two fronts.  On one they face champions of central banking and managed money.  On the other they struggle against advocates of 100-percent reserve banking.  Although the second front is a lot smaller than the first, it’s far from being…

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Economic History, Free Banking, Recommended Reading

What's old (and some classics)

Kurt Schuler/May 20, 2011December 19, 2015 /5 Comments

Brad asked about the free banking book classics. What I had already planned to write, below, partly answers his question. Current thinking about free banking began with Friedrich Hayek’s 1976 pamphlet Denationalisation of Money (link is to an expanded version first issued in 1978 and reprinted in…

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