Money and Banks

The best parts of Rahn's book are those dealing with the enhancement of privacy in the digital age. These parts are realistic and encouraging.  

George Selgin and Lawrence White have sought to tie their modern free banking school to the views of Ludwig von Mises. Whatever the validity of their own views on the gold standard

Whether the current recovery will strengthen, which appears to be the prevailing consensus, or whether unforeseen events in the financial arena abort it prematurely, 

The present work is a doctoral dissertation written at the University of Hamburg. It deals with Mises’s work on monetary economics and business cycle theory. 

We explore several unaddressed issues in George Selgin’s (1988) claim that the best monetary system to maintain monetary equilibrium is a fractional reserve free banking one. 

Arthur Burns, Federal Reserve chairman (1970-1978), delayed Murray Rothbard's doctoral dissertation at Columbia University in the mid-1950s. Rothbard (1969) later observed

In two by-elections in the spring of 1996, the Front National (FN), the party of the radical right in France, helped several candidates of the left

Bankruptcy law is a system of interventionary legislation which interferes with the ability of individuals freely to establish the terms of loan co

The inflation which seems to have become endemic to much of the world, along with the perception that the prime culprits are the monopolistic issue

Professor Spengler refers to Richard Cantillon as the first of the modems. Professor Tarascio presents him from a current perspective.