All Articles tagged free banking

• Review Essays
  October 19, 2023 CDT
  Review Essay: Sound Money without Free Banking: Revisiting Economic Principles
  Kristoffer J. Mousten Hansen

  Kristoffer Mousten Hansen reviews Larry White's _Better Money: Gold, Fiat, or Bitcoin_, and contends that the choice is between gold and bitcoin, not between monetary policies.

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• Articles
  July 15, 2022 CDT
  A Further Clarification of Ludwig von Mises as a Currency School Free Banker
  Kesong Wang

  Did Mises propose complete freedom in banking? As a currency school free banker, Mises's free banking theory presages the split in the modern free banking literature.

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• Articles
  July 29, 2021 CDT
  Are Free Market Fiduciary Media Possible? On the Nature of Money, Banking, and Money Production in the Free Market Order
  Kristoffer J. M. Hansen

  How, and to what extent, would fiduciary media emerge in a pure market economy? Hansen argues that holding fiduciary media instead of money is an entrepreneurial error.

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• Articles
  June 17, 2019 CDT
  More Than Quibbles: Problems with the Theory and History of Fractional Reserve Free Banking
  Robert Murphy

  Are holders of banknotes implicitly lending funds to the issuing bank? Do historical periods of relatively free banking illustrate the stability of the system? A response to Bagus and Howden.

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