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Money: Free and Unfree

By George Selgin

Book information

Publisher
Cato Institute
Year
2017
ISBN
9781944424305, 9781944424299
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
4 MB (4638114 bytes)
Pages
\422
Topic
Economy
Time added
2021-04-13 16:01:27

Description

Title Page Figures and Tables Introduction Part I: Regulatory Sources of Financial Instability 1. A Fiscal Theory of Government’s Role in Money 2. Central Banks as Sources of Financial Instability 3. Legal Restrictions, Financial Weakening, and the Lender of Last Resort Part II: Before the Fed 4. The Suppression of State Bank Notes: A Reconsideration 5. Monetary Reform and the Redemption of National Bank Notes, 1863-1913 6. New York’s Bank: The National Monetary Commission and the Founding of the Fed Part III: The Federal Reserve Era 7. The Rise and Fall of the Gold Standard in the United States 8. Has the Fed Been a Failure? 9. Operation Twist-the-Truth: How the Federal Reserve Misrepresents Its History and Performance 10. Liberty Street: Bagehotian Prescriptions for a 21st-Century Money Market Notes References

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