The 100 Percent Gold Tradition

The Case for a 100 Percent Gold Dollar audiobook

08/05/2026 Murray N. Rothbard

Rothbard places the 100 percent program in the classical economists and the currency school, and in the Jeffersonian and Jacksonian political tradition—figures he argues historians have miscast as economically ignorant agrarians. He credits Condy Raguet with seeing before the British that deposits are money substitutes too, and recovers the neglected Charles H. Carroll and Isaiah W. Sylvester.

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