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…
My Free Banking posts will not be focused on the monetary policy aspects of 'free banking,' but rather on the other aspects of what I would call a 'free-er banking' environment going forward. I plan to focus not only on these non-monetary policy activities of central banks, but also…
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…
Welcome everyone to the free banking blog. I'm very excited about the stellar cast we have, and I hope this space will become a clearing house for information from different scholars and groups. In addition, as it grows, this page should become a great resource of information….
My hope for this blog is that it will help answer several questions about free banking and related topics, namely: What's old: What have we known for a while? What's new: What have we recently found? What's left: What do we still need to discover? How do…