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Herbert Spencer, Private money, free banking, Alt-M Classics,
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Alt-M classics: Herbert Spencer on Currency and Banking

Herbert Spencer/June 29, 2018June 29, 2018 /4 Comments

[I'm pleased to introduce with this entry a new  Alt-M series, consisting of occasional classic essays or excerpts from longer works concerning alternative monetary arrangements. As a fitting introduction to the series I've chosen the passages on currency from chapter 29 of Herbert Spencer's earliest and most…

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Canadian banking system, free banking, scottish free banking, bank of canada
Banking Regulation, Free Banking, The Fed & Central Banks

Entry into Canadian Banking, 1870-1935

George Selgin/May 8, 2018May 10, 2018 /3 Comments

As all dedicated Alt-M readers know, I am a big fan of the Canadian banking and monetary system that flourished between Canada's Confederation in 1867 and the outbreak of the First World War.  Besides thinking it was a darn good system, I also regard it as the…

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free banking, Diamond and Dyvbig, Alternative Money University, monetary education, economic education
Free Banking, Money & Politics, The Fed & Central Banks

Friday Flashback: We Are All Free Banking Theorists Now*

George Selgin/February 2, 2018February 3, 2018 /32 Comments

(Originally appeared December 7, 2014) (*And we always have been.) *** Yesterday, while giving Cato's interns an impromptu talk about my work, I found myself saying something that seems worth putting in writing. This was that the difference between me and Larry White and Kevin Dowd, among…

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banking regulation, deregulation, Scottish Free Banking, misunderstanding financial crises, Dodd-Frank Act
Banking Regulation, Economic History, Free Banking

Is Bank Deregulation Dangerous?

George Selgin/January 23, 2018January 22, 2018 /18 Comments

Among last week's news items that had colleagues asking me, "What's your answer to this?," was a piece by Quartz's John Detrixhe, telling its readers that, according to "300 years of financial history," rolling back bank regulations is a good way to trigger a financial meltdown. Though…

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Economic History, Free Banking, The Fed & Central Banks

Hayek on the Creation of Moral Hazard by Central Banks

Larry White/December 7, 2017December 7, 2017 /7 Comments

Some years ago I published a paper on the banking theory and policy views of the important twentieth-century economist Friedrich A. Hayek, entitled "Why Didn't Hayek Favor Laissez Faire in Banking?"[1] Very recently, working on a new paper on Hayek's changing views of the gold standard, I…

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