Money: Free and Unfree

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Author(s): George Selgin
Publisher: Cato Institute
Year: 2017

Language: English

Title Page
Figures and Tables
Introduction
Part I: Regulatory Sources of Financial Instability
1. A Fiscal Theory of Government’s Role in Money
2. Central Banks as Sources of Financial Instability
3. Legal Restrictions, Financial Weakening, and the Lender of Last Resort
Part II: Before the Fed
4. The Suppression of State Bank Notes: A Reconsideration
5. Monetary Reform and the Redemption of National Bank Notes, 1863-1913
6. New York’s Bank: The National Monetary Commission and the Founding of the Fed
Part III: The Federal Reserve Era
7. The Rise and Fall of the Gold Standard in the United States
8. Has the Fed Been a Failure?
9. Operation Twist-the-Truth: How the Federal Reserve Misrepresents Its History and Performance
10. Liberty Street: Bagehotian Prescriptions for a 21st-Century Money Market
Notes
References