Volume 12, No. 1 (2009) In a free market economy from which fiduciary media are excluded, economic progress will be limited, perhaps severely, by the high cost and correspondingly limited supply of...
George A. Selgin
George Selgin is a Senior Fellow and director of the Center for Monetary and Financial Alternatives at the Cato Institute. Formerly a professor at the University of Georgia, he has discovered the monetary equivalent of the lost city of Atlantis. He has written a full-scale historical narrative — one that is deeply interesting and engaging — that has been largely unknown, even to scholars of the Industrial Revolution. Send him mail.
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Not long ago, many economists were convinced that monetary policy should aim at achieving "full employment." Those who looked upon monetary expansion as a way to eradicate almost all unemployment...
Here is my piece on this Ron Paul idea in the Christian Science Monitor: Since it was introduced in February, Representative Ron Paul’s “Audit the Fed” bill (H.R. 1207) has gained 282 congressional...