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Multiple Currencies and Gresham’s Law in Zimbabwe

01/08/2015 Mises Daily Finbar Feehan-Fitzgerald

Zimbabwe hit the headlines in the 2000s due to its extraordinary inflation rate, peaking at a monthly rate of 79.6 billion percent in November 2008. The hyperinflation was a result of Robert Mugabe’s...

Competing Currencies in Somalia

08/01/2013 Mises Daily Finbar Feehan-Fitzgerald

A real-life example of concurrent currencies circulating absent any legal restrictions would contain some heuristic value. The real-life example is Somalia.

Private Law in the Emerald Isle

06/08/2012 Mises Daily Finbar Feehan-Fitzgerald

There have been many notable objections to anarchy over the years, not least, the private production of security and justice. Even the great Ludwig von Mises rejected the private production of law...

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