Money and Banking
About this Collection
As modern economics began to emerge in the late 18th century money and banks quickly became the focus of much attention. Of particular interest were questions about the proper role of government in the issuing of coins, the regulation of interest rates, and other banking activities.
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Money & Banking
Adam Smith on money as an instrument of commerce as well as a measure of value
Money & Banking
Alexander Hamilton on the Constitutionality of a National Bank
Money & Banking
Bagehot on Government, the banking system, and moral hazard (1873)
Money & Banking
Bagehot on the monopoly central bank (1873)
Money & Banking
David Ricardo on the “mere increase of money” (1809)
Economics
David Ricardo, Paper Money, and the Abuse of Power
Money & Banking
Ludwig von Mises argues that sound money is an instrument for the protection of civil liberties and a means of limiting government power (1912)
Money & Banking
Ludwig von Mises identifies the source of the disruption of the world monetary order as the failed policies of governments and their central banks (1934)
Money & Banking
Ludwig von Mises lays out five fundamental truths of monetary expansion (1949)
Money & Banking
Mises on classical liberalism and the gold standard (1928)
Money & Banking
Mises on the gold standard as the symbol of international peace and prosperity (1949)
Money & Banking
Mises on the State Theory of Money (1912)
Money & Banking
Nassau Senior on how the universal acceptance of gold and silver currency creates a world economy (1830)
Money & Banking
Thomas Jefferson and The National Bank Question Yet Again: 1813-1817
Money & Banking
William Leggett on the separation of bank and state (1837)
Social Sciences