“Do We Really Need a Central Bank?” – A Talk by Steve Horwitz
Economic Liberty Lecture Series: Steve Horwitz from The Future of Freedom Foundation on Vimeo. Professor Steve Horwitz, Charles A. Dana Professor of Economics at St. Lawrence University, gave a talk entitled, “Do We Really Need a Central Bank?,” during …
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This essay challenges the conventional wisdom about money and monetary policy. The role of money in fostering prosperity is a function of the quality, as well as the quantity, of money. Inflation always harms the performance of an economy. Deflations c …
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Two Philosophies of Money: The Conflict of Trust and Authority S. Herbert Frankel New York: St. Martin’s Press/Basil Blackwell, 1977.
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“In the present century centralised banking systems have come to be regarded as the usual concomitant, if not one of the conditions of the attainment of an advanced stage of economic development. The belief in the desirability of central bank organisat …
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“On the Measurement of Zimbabwe’s Hyperinflation” Steve Hanke and Alex Kwok Cato Journal, Vol. 29, No. 2 (Spring-Summer, 2009).
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“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 …
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