The Origin and Nature of Money

Tags: Austrian Economics Overview, Monetary Theory

12/20/2019 Murray N. Rothbard

Presented at the Mises Institute’s “First Annual Advanced Instructional Conference in Austrian Economics” at Stanford University; June 21–27, 1987.

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