Gold and Free Market Banking

Capitol Hill Conference on the Gold Standard 1983

Tags: Gold Standard, Value and Exchange, Free Markets

01/07/2009 Lawrence H. White

Presented at the Mises Institute’s first conference, November 16-17, 1983; in Washington, DC.

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