The Gold Standard Revisited

From Menger to the present day, Austrians have favored sound money over government-manipulated paper currency. The very first Mises Institute conference in 1983 was on the gold standard. At the time, people said the idea was outmoded and that paper currency was working just fine. Here we are 25 years later, and it is not so.The dollar is in grave danger, the government is growing at the expense of society, and the business cycle has been unleashed with ferocity. The best time for a gold standard is in calm times, but only a crisis focuses the mind. People are looking for answers, and the Misesian answer is the same now as it was when Mises wrote his first book on the topic: restore sound money, stop the inflation, and get government out of the money business. 

Topics and Speakers:

John Denson: "Unsound Money and War in the 20^th Century"
Thomas DiLorenzo: "The Gilded Age and the Gold Standard"
Doug French: "Bubbles Made of Paper: Then and Now"
David Gordon: "Money and Philosophy"
Guido Hulsmann: "The Ethical Rules of Producing Money"
Peter Klein: "How Firms Function with Falling Prices: Business and the Gold Standard"
Yuri Maltsev: "Inflation and the Bolsheviks"
Andrew Napolitano: "Nation of Sheep"
Ron Paul: "My Exchanges with Fed Chairmen"
Lew Rockwell: "How Abolishing the Fed Would Change Everything (for the better)"
Joe Salerno: "Inflation in Recent Monetary History"
Mark Thornton: "Monetary Freedom and its Opposite"
Tom Woods: "Gold and the Good Guys: A Short History of American Thinkers on Money"

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