Austrian School Arguments on the Free-Market Origin of Money

Tags: Monetary Theory, Money and Banking

08/25/2008 Gennady Stolyarov II

Austrian Economics offers an elegant, logical, and thoroughly causal explanation of how money came to be, again demonstrating the power of the free market to spontaneously organize human activity in meaningful and universally beneficial ways.

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