H.A. Scott Trask

Articles

William Graham Sumner: Monetary Theorist

07/30/2014 Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics H.A. Scott Trask

Volume 8, No. 2 (Summer 2005) Sumner was the product of an indigenous American hard-money tradition that embraced free markets, free trade, and sound banking—a tradition that has much in common with...

Government’s Fiscal Shell Game

10/01/2003 Free Market H.A. Scott Trask

The Free Market 23, no. 10 (October 2003) T he tax bills of many American families are falling during a period of exorbitant increases in federal spending due mainly to war and welfare spending. Odd...

The Feds Before the Fed

03/01/2004 Free Market H.A. Scott Trask

The Free Market 24, no. 3 (March 2004) Before there was the Federal Reserve there was the second Bank of the United States (1817–1836). Since the late nineteenth century, historians and economists...

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