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On Free Banking, Monetary Rules, and Crusades

George Selgin/April 8, 2016June 19, 2022

I often find myself described, not as a monetary economist, plain vanilla or otherwise, but as a "free banker," and (therefore) as someone who wants to "abolish" the Fed.  Yet I've also been accused of lacking consistency, and even of being an outright apologist for monetary central…

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Instead of the Fed

George Selgin/May 13, 2015June 19, 2022

That, some of you may recall, was the name of a November 1, 2013 conference put on by the Mercatus Center.  (The full name was actually "Instead of the Fed: Past and Present Alternatives to the Federal Reserve System").  The proceedings of that conference–or most of them,…

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