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New Release: Cato Journal Fall 2018 Edition

Tyler Whirty/September 28, 2018June 19, 2022

The Fall 2018 edition of the Cato Journal, an interdisciplinary journal of public policy, is now available online. In this latest issue, CJ editor and founder (and Cato VP of monetary studies) James Dorn includes two articles and two book reviews on financial regulation and monetary policy…

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Leland Yeager, The Fluttering Veil, market monetarism, monetary economics, monetarism
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Leland Yeager, R.I.P.

George Selgin/April 26, 2018June 19, 2022 /8 Comments

The world has lost one of its greatest monetary economists ever: Leland Yeager (b. 1924) has passed away, and boy will I miss him. Leland's writings on monetary economics taught me a big chunk of all that I know about the subject. Among other things, they gave…

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Bitcoin, cybercurrency, competition, Leland Yeager
Digital Money, Economic Thought

Is Bitcoin Doomed?

George Selgin/May 21, 2015June 19, 2022 /5 Comments

OK, I'm being melodramatic.  But the question actually posed by the PanAm Post, "Will Bitcoin's Fixed Money Supply Be Its Downfall?", was only slightly less so.  They had me take the "yes" position.  But as my doubts about Bitcoin's future are far from certain,  I was delighted…

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