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Advisory Board: Steve H. Hanke, Jerry L. Jordan, Lawrence H. White
Director: William J. Luther
Senior Fellows: Nicolás Cachanosky, Gerald P. Dwyer, Joshua R. Hendrickson, Thomas L. Hogan, Gerald P. O’Driscoll, Jr., Alexander W. Salter
Fellows: James L. Caton, J.P. Koning
Gold: The Protector and Creator of Jobs
Gold: The Protector and Creator of Jobs For Sound Money Hugo Salinas Price
READ MORE“On the Measurement of Zimbabwe’s Hyperinflation”
“On the Measurement of Zimbabwe’s Hyperinflation” Steve Hanke and Alex Kwok Cato Journal, Vol. 29, No. 2 (Spring-Summer, 2009).
READ MOREMoney, Bank Credit and Economic Cycles
“The economic analysis of juridical institutions has come to the fore in recent years and promises to become one of the most fruitful spheres of economics. Much of the work completed thus far has been strongly influenced by traditional neoclassical ass …
READ MOREWhat You Should Know About Inflation
What You Should Know About Inflation Henry Hazlitt Excerpt provided by the Ludwig von Mises Institute Complete text found here.
READ MORETheory of Money and Credit
Theory of Money and Credit Ludwig von Mises Copyright 1981 by Liberty Fund Inc. Via the Library of Economics and Liberty
READ MOREEconomic Myths and Irrelevancy
Economic Myths and Irrelevancy A Minority View by Walter Williams
READ MOREThe Ethics of Money Production
The Ethics of Money Production J. Guido Hulsmann Copyright 2008 by the Ludwig von Mises Institute
READ MOREFiat Money Inflation in France
Fiat Money Inflation in France: How it came, what brought it and how it ended Andrew Dickinson White New York: D. Appelton & Co., 1896. Via Liberty Fund
READ MOREWhere’s that Inflation
Inflation is the result of more dollars chasing the same number of (or fewer) goods. As the Nobel laureate Milton Friedman put it, in one of his main contributions to “monetarist” economics, inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon—that is, it’s caused by an expansion in the supply of money or credit. So why haven’t we seen inflation in 2009? Are we looking in the wrong places, or is it time to update monetarist theory?
READ MORE“A Treatise on Money”
“A Treatise on Money” Juan de Mariana via The Acton Institute Journal of Markets & Morality, Vol. 5, No. 2, Fall 2002.
READ MORE1920-21 and the Great Depression
Put differently: the 1920-21 episode was, in fact, a severe, though not particularly long, recession. Allowing the money supply to fall isn’t painless. Allowing the money supply to fall in an environment of severe downward wage rigidity is VERY “not painless.” The 1920-21 episode doesn’t demonstrate that deflation is harmless. It DOES demonstrate that if you have deflation, it will be less bad if you have nominal wages that are flexible downward. That recession is the best example of why Hoover’s wage policies were such a mistake.
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