The Other Side of the Coin: Free Banking in Chile [Full Edition of Vol. 10, No. 2]
Volume 10, Number 2
Murray N. Rothbard discusses the downsides to free banking, as evidenced by 19th century Chile.
Money and Banks
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The Trouble with Prosperity: An Interview with James Grant
Volume 16, Number 4 (Winter 1996)
The Vocation of Economics: An Interview with Timothy Terrell
Volume 23, Number 1 (Spring 2003)
Gary Becker on Free Banking
The recently edited Festschrift in honor of Pascal Salin is a highly varied and disparate collection of contributions by colleagues, admir
Legal Tender Laws and Fractional-Reserve Banking
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
The Costs of Public Income Redistribution and Private Charity
Most academic participants in the ongoing debate over income redistribution are aware that it is not possible, ever, for government to tax one set
Toward a Libertarian Theory of Blackmail
In this article, Professor Walter Block discusses the legalities of black mail as well as the Libertarian perspective.
Dehomogenizing Mises’s Monetary Theory
This article contains two parts that correspond to the two main fields of monetary theory.
Money is the Product of Virtue: Tensions in Rand’s Invocation of Market Success
Casual acquaintance with Ayn Rand’s ideas often involves the assumption that Rand would approve of Oliver Stone’s character Gordon Gekko (of “greed
Patents and Copyrights: Do the Benefits Exceed the Costs?
Patents and copyrights are forms of immaterial “property” that grant to their owners exclusive control over the production and sale of a specified
