U.S. History
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Wall Street, Banks, and American Foreign Policy
Manufacturers can choose the free market. Bankers rarely do.
How Neoliberals Fueled the Rise of Socialism
The neoliberal establishment has done much to define our highly-interventionist, inflationary, and crony system as true free-market capitalism. They shouldn’t be surprised, therefore, that people are turning against it.
How Neoliberals Fueled the Rise of Socialism
The neoliberal establishment has done much to define our highly-interventionist, inflationary, and crony system as true free-market capitalism. They shouldn’t be surprised, therefore, that people are turning against it.
Appendix A: Minor Remedies Proposed
Public works as a cure for unemployment: proposed, debated, and defended with arguments that would sound familiar a century later.
Chapter VII. Conclusion
The familiar story pits western farmer-debtors against eastern merchant-creditors. Rothbard's evidence says the story is wrong.
Chapter VI. The Movement for a Protective Tariff
Mass unemployment gave the protectionists their best argument in a generation, and they nearly won.
Chapter IV. Proposals for National Monetary Expansion
Before the Federal Reserve, before the greenback, American writers were already designing a managed national paper currency, and arguing it could be more stable than gold.
Chapter III. State Proposals and Actions for Monetary Expansion
Four western states answered the shortage of money by printing their own, and watched it depreciate in their hands.
