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David Glasner is now blogging

Kurt Schuler/July 6, 2011December 19, 2015 /1 Comment

David Glasner has just begun his own blog, Uneasy Money. Glasner wrote the worthwhile book Free Banking and Monetary Reform (1989). The publisher, Cambridge University Press, wants £72 for it. Amazon sells it at about half as much new, $58, and AbeBoooks.com has used copies starting at $15. Readers who want to…

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What’s new in the last 15 years

Kurt Schuler/June 16, 2011December 19, 2015 /15 Comments

In a previous post I listed what I consider to be the most important ideas on free banking that have been well known for at least 15 years among those of us interested in the subject. During the 20 years from Friedrich Hayek’s revival of interest in…

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Sir Walter Scott, advocate of free banking

Kurt Schuler/June 10, 2011December 19, 2015 /2 Comments

The library in my old hometown recently held a competition for the unofficial title of poet laureate of the city. They found two people worthy of the title. One is a high school buddy of mine. Seeing the newspaper story set my mind wandering down the byways…

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Adam Smith, Henry Thornton, and Ludwig von Mises

Kurt Schuler/May 28, 2011December 19, 2015 /9 Comments

A recent article in Econ Journal Watch surveying the favorite dead and living economists of 299 respondents caught my eye. It is also tangentially relevant to Brad’s question about the free banking classics. As you would have expected, Adam Smith was the respondents’ favorite economist before the…

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