Money and Banks

An Inflation Primer

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03/06/1962 • Melchior Palyi

Inflation concerns every citizen-worker, banker, creditor, debtor, politician and union leader. It is the “legalized robbery” by which wealth is distributed, false prosperity is prolonged and nations are ruined. An Inflation Primer is written...

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The Case for a 100 Percent Gold Dollar

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01/01/1962 • Murray N. Rothbard

Rothbard shows how money must originate from a commodity. In an ideal system, a dollar would be a unit of weight, and paper money would operate strictly as warehouse receipts for the stock of the monetary metal. There would be no fractional...

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Inflation: Its Causes and Cures

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06/17/1960 • Gottfried Haberler

The objective of the present study is to give a rounded picture and to emphasize fundamental issues which seem in danger of being obscured by the great mass that has been and is being written on inflation.

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Essays in European Economic Thought

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06/15/1960 • Louise Sommer

In this 1960 volume, Louise Sommer brought together for the first time in English translation some of the most brilliant essays in economics written in Europe in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, i n the hope of furthering among the...

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Why Wages Rise

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01/01/1957 • F.A. Harper

From Harper’s Introduction: Wages are of prime importance in any advanced economy such as ours. They affect us all far more than seems evidenced in our concern about them. I shall deal with the wage problem in a manner that may seem...

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Defense, Controls, and Inflation

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11/01/1952 • Aaron Director

This book offers a transcript of the three-day conference on “The Economics of Mobilization” with a brief review of the issues raised, the conclusions reached, and agreement and disagreement expressed. A mobilization program is to be judged by...

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Wealth: A Brief Explanation of the Causes of Economic Welfare

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06/15/1948 • Edwin Cannan

Wealth has so generally been identified with the subject-matter of economics that we need not hesitate to treat the question, “What is wealth?” as exactly the same question as “What is it most convenient to take as the subject-matter of...

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Debt: Private and Public, Good and Bad

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06/05/1938 • Sir Ernest Benn

From the author: The world would be a dismal place if everyone understood the technicalities of the Money Market. Most people know that they can more or less rely upon £3 a week, £1,000 a year or whatever it may be, and, being wholly ignorant of...

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Banking and the Business Cycle

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03/15/1937 • Chester A. Phillips

This rare study by C.A. Phillips, together with T.F. McManus and R.W. Nelson, appeared in 1937 as an Austrian-style analysis of the stock market crash and the great depression that followed. It explores the many theories tossed about at the time...

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Monetary Nationalism and International Stability

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01/01/1937 • Friedrich A. Hayek

In five lectures delivered in 1937, Kayek “extended Mises’ monetary theory to provide a groundbreaking analysis of the international operation of the pure gold standard… the first comprehensive case against so-called freely fluctuating exchange...

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