Joseph R. Peden

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Social Scientists, Schooling, and the Acculturation of Immigrants in 19th Century America

09/12/2018 Journal of Libertarian Studies Leonard P. Liggio Joseph R. Peden

Volume 2, Number 1 (1978) I The last several years have witnessed a remarkable outpouring of criticism of the American system of public education. While the usual attacks on the quality of the...

Property Rights in Celtic Irish Law

07/30/2014 Journal of Libertarian Studies Joseph R. Peden

It is impossible at the present time to present a systematic, coherent description of the ancient Irish law of property. The reason is that a considerable portion of the sources have not been...

Inflation and the Fall of the Roman Empire

10/19/2017 Mises Daily Joseph R. Peden

By the time of Trajan in 117 AD, the denarius was only about 85 percent silver, down from Augustus’s 95 percent. By the age of Marcus Aurelius, in 180, it was down to about 75 percent silver. In Septimius’s time it had dropped to 60 percent, and Caracalla evened it off at 50/50.

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