Legal Tender Laws and Fractional-Reserve Banking
This article will explore the economics of legal tender laws, arguing that they are not only a necessary prerequisite of paper money, but also bene
Money and Banking
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Money is the Product of Virtue: Tensions in Rand’s Invocation of Market Success
Casual acquaintance with Ayn Rand’s ideas often involves the assumption that Rand would approve of Oliver Stone’s character Gordon Gekko (of “greed
Dehomogenizing Mises’s Monetary Theory
This article contains two parts that correspond to the two main fields of monetary theory.
Gary Becker on Free Banking
The recently edited Festschrift in honor of Pascal Salin is a highly varied and disparate collection of contributions by colleagues, admir
The Great Depression Tax Revolts Revisited
David Beito did a great service for the scholarship of liberty and American history with his rediscovery of the Great Depression-era tax resistance
Book Review of The Church Confronts Modernity: Catholic Intellectuals and the Progressive Era and The Church and the Market: A Catholic Defense of the Free Economy by Thomas E. Woods, Jr.
In this article, Samuel Bostaph reviews Thomas E.
The Cultural Consequences of Fiat Money
Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on 26 July 2014.
The Economics of Fractional Reserve Banking
Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on 22 July 2014.
Germany Reneges on Request for its Gold
Germany has now decided that its gold is safe in the hands of the Federal Reserve after all.
