Money and Banks

Gold, Peace, and Prosperity

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05/21/1981 • Ron Paul

This book is a quick read that covers the whole history of monetary destruction, providing information that most people have never heard or thought about. In that sense, it is the perfect conversation starter, and it could inspire more reading...

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The Inflation Crisis, and How To Resolve It

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10/02/1978 • Henry Hazlitt

Prices are rising, as they inevitably must with an expansionary policy, and who is getting the blame? Not the Fed. Commentators claim it’s the weather or foreigners with greedy appetites for goods. It has always been so: when the inflation...

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The Austrian Theory of the Trade Cycle and Other Essays

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06/15/1978 • Richard M. Ebeling

Booms and busts are not endemic to the free market, argues the Austrian theory of the business cycle, but come about through manipulation of money and credit by central banks. In this monograph, Austrian giants explain and defend the theory...

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Gold Is Money

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06/15/1975 • Hans F. Sennholz

This book summarily rejects the statist monetary orthodoxy. Its nine writers are in full agreement that money is not the product of a legislative act, but the inevitable result of man’s division of labor and exchange economy. Wherever...

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When Money Dies

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06/01/1975 • Adam Fergusson

The Nightmare of Deficit Spending, Devaluation, and Hyperinflation in Weimar Germany. This was a time of bizarre parallels: amazing riches coinciding with terrible poverty, mass quantities of money coinciding with a shortage of money, mania and...

A Free-Market Monetary System and The Pretense of Knowledge

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01/15/1974 • Friedrich A. Hayek

Here are two of Hayek’s greatest essays in one volume. The book begins with Hayek’s most excellent essay on money. It is also his most radical. He plainly says that central banks cannot be reformed. There can never be sound money so long as they...

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Understanding the Dollar Crisis

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06/15/1973 • Percy L. Greaves, Jr.

In the year that President Nixon closed the gold window forever and the US government removed the last vestiges of the gold standard, nonstop dollar turmoil was unleashed. In that same year, Percy L. Greaves, a student of Ludwig von Mises’s...

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The Monetary Sin of the West

Tags: Global Economy, Money and Banks, U.S. History

06/15/1972 • Jacques Rueff

The problem of Western currency is more topical than ever. The international monetary system has been patched up by many expedients that were intended to extend its assured life. It cannot endure very long in the present state. Rueff looks at...

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The History of Banks

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07/22/1971 • Richard Hildreth

This book discusses the history of banking beginning in Venice and Genoa. It continues by demonstrating the advantages and necessity of free competition in the business of banking.

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A Seminar on Money

Tags: Austrian Economics Overview, Money and Banking, Money and Banks

11/08/1969 • Ludwig von Mises

From a practical point of view, the supply of money is very different from the supply of any other good. An increase in other goods, like shoes or meat, is a welcome event, but an increase in the supply of money dilutes the purchasing power of each money unit.