Pertinent Category: Sound Money Project

The Sound Money Project was founded in January 2009 to conduct research and promote awareness about monetary stability and financial privacy. The project is comprised of leading academics and practitioners in money, banking, and macroeconomics. It offers regular commentary and in-depth analysis on monetary policy, alternative monetary systems, financial markets regulation, cryptocurrencies, and the history of monetary and macroeconomic thought. For the latest on sound money issues, subscribe to our working paper series and follow along on Twitter or Facebook.

Advisory Board: Steve H. Hanke, Jerry L. Jordan, Lawrence H. White
Director: William J. Luther
Senior Fellows: Nicolás Cachanosky, Gerald P. DwyerJoshua R. Hendrickson, Thomas L. Hogan, Gerald P. O’Driscoll, Jr., Alexander W. Salter
Fellows: J.P. Koning

A Week of Travels

– April 16, 2010

The past week has been a busy one for Atlas and the Sound Money project. Since last Thursday, we have traveled from D.C. to Philadelphia to Las Vegas. It has been a hectic, but rewarding journey. The Sound Money project has been gaining support at each …

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Mark Skousen – The Making of Modern Economics

– April 15, 2010

Good introductory text to the intellectual history of economics

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Larry White to Lecture at GMU!

– April 15, 2010

Date:   Monday, April 19, 2010 Time:  5:00pm – 6:30pm Location:  George Mason University — SUB II, Room 7 Address:  4400 University Drive    Fairfax, VA   The GMU Economics Society & the Atlas Sound Money Project invite you to attend a lecture wit …

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Ferguson and Rogoff on the financial crisis

– April 13, 2010

In this video panel on Bloomberg.com, economic historian and author The Ascent of Money, Niall Ferguson, discusses the financial crisis and global recession with economist and author of This Time Is Different, Kenneth Rogoff. They both warn that the gl …

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Florin Aftalion – The French Revolution: An Economic Interpretation

– April 12, 2010

In this monograph, French economist Florin Aftalion sets out to rectify a great omission in most historical accounts of the French Revolution, namely to look at how economic, and especially monetary forces helped shape the dynamics of the revolution. B …

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The Swinging Pendulum

– April 9, 2010

On Monday, April 5, the Future of Freedom Foundation and the George Mason University Econ Society hosted a lecture1 by Dr. Richard Ebeling, professor of economics at Northwood University and former president of the Foundation for Economic Education. Dr …

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John Munro – The Monetary Origins of the ‘Price Revolution’

– April 8, 2010

In this paper, John Munro of the Department of Economics, University of Toronto revisits the historical debate on the origins of the price revolution of the 16th century. Though some historians and economists have claimed that this event was caused by …

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We Are Not All Keynesians Now

– April 8, 2010

The financial crisis and global recession has brought traditional Keynesian policies back to the fore. However, not all economists are Keynesians now.

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Hyperinflation

– April 8, 2010

“Inflation is a sustained increase in the aggregate price level. Hyperinflation is very high inflation. Although the threshold is arbitrary, economists generally reserve the term ‘hyperinflation’ to describe episodes when the monthly inflation rate is …

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“Why Default on U.S. Treasuries is Likely”

– April 7, 2010

“Almost everyone is aware that federal government spending in the United States is scheduled to skyrocket, primarily because of Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid. Recent “stimulus” packages have accelerated the process. Only the naively optimisti …

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“Misrepresenting ‘How We Arrived at This Moment'”

– April 6, 2010

“What must be done to recover from this financial crisis? Barack Obama rightly stresses that we first must understand how today’s problems emerged. It is ‘only by understanding how we arrived at this moment that we’ll be able to lift ourselves out of t …

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“Stop Blaming Capitalism for Government Failures”

– April 5, 2010

“But while capitalism may be a convenient scapegoat, it did not cause any of these problems. Indeed, whatever one wishes to call the unruly mixture of freedom and government controls that made up our economic and political system during the last three …

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