All Articles tagged gold standard

• Articles
  February 27, 2024 CDT
  The Qualities of the Monetary Base Essential to Sound Money: Fiat and Gold
  Brendan Brown

  How do we move toward sound money? Brendan Brown describes the Fed's corruption of the monetary base and how sound money might be restored.

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• 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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• Book Reviews
  July 06, 2023 CDT
  Book Review: A Guide to Good Money: Beyond the Illusions of Asset Inflation
  Joseph Solis-Mullen

  An excellent primer for those who wish understand the opacities of modern money, Brown and Pringle's new book also suggests monetary reforms, including a gold standard. Review by Joseph Solis-Mullen.

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• Book Reviews
  June 13, 2022 CDT
  Book Review: The Fiat Standard: The Debt Slavery Alternative to Human Civilization
  Fernando Monteiro D'Andrea

  Saifedean Ammous’ instructive analysis of fiat currency exposes the vast range of problems that bad money entails, though it may overstate the role of fiat money in causing social problems.

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• Articles
  May 06, 2022 CDT
  Commodity Money and the Price Level
  George Bitros

  Under certain conditions, supply or demand shocks in a free market economy with a metallic standard leave prices stable, with the exception of when the currency is debased.

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• Book Reviews
  January 10, 2022 CDT
  Book Review: The Gold Standard: Retrospect and Prospect
  Patrick Newman

  Patrick Newman reviews Earle and Luther's _The Gold Standard_, seeing in it an honest and informative assessment of the gold standard, though not without some omissions.

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• Book Reviews
  January 10, 2022 CDT
  Book Review: The Gold Standard: Retrospect and Prospect
  Robert P. Murphy

  Robert Murphy reviews Earle and Luther's _The Gold Standard_, finding it a balanced and useful defense of an underappreciated monetary institution.

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• Book Reviews
  March 21, 2020 CDT
  Book Review: “The Bitcoin Standard: The Decentralized Alternative to Central Banking”
  Kristoffer Hansen

  Kristoffer Hansen reviews Saifedean Ammous' "The Bitcoin Standard" and is pleased to find a rarity: a reasonable treatment of bitcoin from the point of view of Austrian economics.

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• Book Reviews
  December 31, 2019 CDT
  Book Review: The Origin of the Prolonged Economic Stagnation in Contemporary Japan: The Factitious Deflation and Meltdown of the Japanese Firm as an Entity
  Jason Morgan

  Jason Morgan reviews Masayuki Otaki's book on Japanese economic stagnation. While Otaki appropriately criticizes stimulus spending, he inexplicably attributes Japanese stagnation to the failure to follow Keynes.

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