Money and Banks

History of Crises Under the National Banking System

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10/13/1968 • O.M.W. Sprague

This detailed description of the series of financial crises which occurred from the establishment of the National Banking System up to its replacement by the Federal Reserve System includes an analysis of the causes of financial market failures...

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What You Should Know About Inflation

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07/01/1964 • Henry Hazlitt

The book’s title— What You Should Know About Inflation—only hints at the extent of the issues that Hazlitt addresses. He presents the Austrian theory of money in the clearest possible terms, and contrasts it with the fallacies of government...

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Organization of Debt into Currency and Other Papers

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06/15/1964 • Charles Holt Carroll

Charles Holt Carroll defended sound money in a blazing series of essays appearing in the latter decades of the 19th century. They are all collected here, in The Organization of Debt into Currency and Other Papers. Little is known of Charles Holt...

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What Has Government Done to Our Money?

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06/15/1963 • Murray N. Rothbard

Click here to get your free copy of What Has Government Done To Our Money? When this gem first appeared in 1963, it took the form of a small paperback designed for mass distribution. Innumerable economists, investors, commentators, and authors...

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Wage Earners and Employers

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05/10/1962 • Ludwig von Mises

"Are the interests of the American wage earners in conflict with those of their employers, or are the two in agreement?" The affluence of the rich in a capitalistic economy is not at the expense of the poor. Profits are plowed back into enterprise, benefiting the common man.

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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