Money and Banks

The recently edited Festschrift in honor of Pascal Salin is a highly varied and disparate collection of contributions by colleagues, admir

This article will explore the economics of legal tender laws, arguing that they are not only a necessary prerequisite of paper money, but also bene

Most academic participants in the ongoing debate over income redistribution are aware that it is not possible, ever, for government to tax one set

In this article, Professor Walter Block discusses the legalities of black mail as well as the Libertarian perspective.

This article contains two parts that correspond to the two main fields of monetary theory.

Casual acquaintance with Ayn Rand’s ideas often involves the assumption that Rand would approve of Oliver Stone’s character Gordon Gekko (of “greed

Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on 26 July 2014.

Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on 22 July 2014.

Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on 21 July 2014.

After years of QE and other loose monetary policies, central banks are starting to