Benjamin Anderson

Articles

Cheap Money, Gold, and the Federal Reserve Bank Policy

07/06/2007 Articles of Interest Benjamin Anderson

The present glut in the money markets, with excessively cheap money and its attendant evils and dangers to the credit structure of the country, is due to the concurrence of three main causes.

Foreign Exchange Stabilization

05/08/2009 Articles of Interest Benjamin Anderson

The text of a speech given by University of California at Los Angeles professor of economics Benjamin M. Anderson on May 11, 1943, which deals with the subject of foreign exchange stabilization.

International Currency: Gold vs. Bancor or Unitas

05/08/2009 Articles of Interest Benjamin Anderson

Delivered before the Chamber of Commerce of the State of New York, New York City, February 3, 1944.

Publications

The Value of Money

05/15/1917 Benjamin Anderson

Benjamin Anderson, American Austrian, was among a handful of economists, led by Ludwig von Mises in his pioneering work The Theory of Money and Credit in 1912, who set out to integrate monetary theory into a general theory of value. Anderson devoted

Economics and the Public Welfare

05/04/1949 Benjamin Anderson

Here is a contemporaneous account of the economic history of the first half of the 20th century, by an American adherent of the Austrian School. Covered in these pages is the inflation of World War I and following, the 1920s boom, and the onset and

Effects of the War on the Money, Banking, Credit System of the United States

09/27/1919 Benjamin Anderson

Students of money, banking, and finance will find this volume filled with solid information and marked by penetrating insight and illuminating interpretation. It is an interpretative and judicially critical record for both countries of the main

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