Free Banking: Theory, History, and a Laissez-Faire Model

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Publisher : Ludwig von Mises Institute
ISBN 13 : 1610164873
Total Pages : 234 pages
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Book Synopsis Free Banking: Theory, History, and a Laissez-Faire Model by : Larry J. Sechrest

Download or read book Free Banking: Theory, History, and a Laissez-Faire Model written by Larry J. Sechrest and published by Ludwig von Mises Institute. This book was released on 2008 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Free Banking

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Publisher : Praeger
ISBN 13 : 0899308155
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (993 download)

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Book Synopsis Free Banking by : Larry J. Sechrest

Download or read book Free Banking written by Larry J. Sechrest and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1993-07-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Free banking is a term that refers to the total deregulation of the banking industry. It signifies an absence of such constraints as reserve requirements, capital requirements, government deposit insurance, and limitations on branching. Above all, it means that private banks would be allowed to issue their own currency. This book takes a fresh approach to that controversial topic. Sechrest proposes that free banking constitutes the final vindication of Say's Law, that the optimal monetary goal, monetary equilibrium, can only be achieved under free banking, that the monetarist and Austrian business cycle theories are complementary, and that the most likely form of free banking will be that in which banks issue specie-convertible notes and hold fractional reserves. After defining free banking the author explains why he adopts the well known White-Selgin model. He then discusses the key characteristics of laissez-faire banks, which form the basis for a formal model, complete with graphs, which may be used in the classroom. The unique relationship between the market for money and the market for time that exists under free banking suggests that business cycles will be minimized under such a regime. That relationship also leads to the insight that the Austrian and monetarist cycle theories are really two sides of the same coin. New evidence is presented that leads the author to the conclusion that both Lawrence White's portrayal of Scottish free banking and the traditional image of American free banking are exaggerated. Three different basic models of free banking are then reviewed in detail and critiqued. Finally, the author suggests both some possible topics for future research and that free banking is desirable socially and politically as well as economically.

Laissez-faire Banking

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Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415137324
Total Pages : 400 pages
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Book Synopsis Laissez-faire Banking by : Kevin Dowd

Download or read book Laissez-faire Banking written by Kevin Dowd and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An assessment and survey of current approaches in service provision to the elderly with psychological problems emphasizing every day clinical techniques currently used in the UK and the US. The 14 contributors evaluate general health care issues and psychogeriatric management as well as specific practices dealing with a range of disorders from Alzhemier's to Pick's disease concentrating on team approaches, community work, and individual therapy. Ten appendices supply suggested formats for statistical recording, consent forms, staff questionnaires, procedures, and outcome measures. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

The Theory of Free Banking

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Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (97 download)

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Book Synopsis The Theory of Free Banking by : George A. Selgin

Download or read book The Theory of Free Banking written by George A. Selgin and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 1988 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To find more information about Rowman and Littlefield titles, please visit www.rowmanlittlefield.com.

Free Banking in History and Theory

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Total Pages : 0 pages
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Book Synopsis Free Banking in History and Theory by : Lawrence H. White

Download or read book Free Banking in History and Theory written by Lawrence H. White and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper surveys economists' work on the theory and the history of free banking regimes. Support for free banking - a laissez-faire monetary system without a central bank, typically conceived as operating under a commodity standard - has been much rarer than support for free trade, even among self-identified free-market economists. Yet where something close to a free banking system was given a trial, for example in Scotland and Canada (seven other cases are also reviewed), the consensus among economic historians finds that it functioned better for the typical user of money and banking services than more heavily restricted systems in other countries. The widespread adoption of central banking, despite the success of free banking, can be explained by the latter's fiscal advantages to national governments. The standard arguments for deposit insurance, and the leading counter-arguments, are also reviewed. Recent work on the importance of credible commitments - in monetary, fiscal, and bank regulatory policies - has the potential to reinvigorate the case for free banking on a commodity standard.

Free Banking

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 424 pages
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Book Synopsis Free Banking by : Lawrence Henry White

Download or read book Free Banking written by Lawrence Henry White and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Free Banking Era

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 176 pages
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Book Synopsis The Free Banking Era by : Hugh Rockoff

Download or read book The Free Banking Era written by Hugh Rockoff and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author argues that free-banking laws enacted before the Civil War generated substantial benefits in the form of a more efficient allocation of capital.

Experience of Free Banking

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134945604
Total Pages : 288 pages
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Book Synopsis Experience of Free Banking by : Kevin Dowd

Download or read book Experience of Free Banking written by Kevin Dowd and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-09-26 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1992. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Three Essays in Monetary Theory

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Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3837021211
Total Pages : 190 pages
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Book Synopsis Three Essays in Monetary Theory by : Ludwig van den Hauwe

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The Clash of Economic Ideas

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107012422
Total Pages : 439 pages
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Book Synopsis The Clash of Economic Ideas by : Lawrence H. White

Download or read book The Clash of Economic Ideas written by Lawrence H. White and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-04-16 with total page 439 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book places economic debates in their historical context and outlines how economic ideas have influenced swings in policy.

Bank Deregulation & Monetary Order

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134825765
Total Pages : 299 pages
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Book Synopsis Bank Deregulation & Monetary Order by : George Selgin

Download or read book Bank Deregulation & Monetary Order written by George Selgin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-03-11 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can the 'invisible hand' handle money? George Selgin challenges the view that government regulation creates monetary order and stability, and instead shows it to be the main source of monetary crisis. The volume is divided into three sections: * Part I refutes conventional wisdom holding that any monetary system lacking government regulation is 'inherently unstable', and looks at the workings of market forces in an otherwise unregulated banking system. * Part II draws on both theory and historical experience to show how various kinds of government interference undermine the inherent efficiency, safety, and stability of a free monetary system. * Part III completes the argument by addressing the popular misconception that a monetary system is unsound unless it delivers a stable output price-level.

Competition and Finance

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Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349248568
Total Pages : 584 pages
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Book Synopsis Competition and Finance by : Kevin Dowd

Download or read book Competition and Finance written by Kevin Dowd and published by Springer. This book was released on 1996-09-04 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Competition and Finance offers a new, unified treatment of the fields of financial and monetary economics. The first part integrates recent developments in agency theory and information economics into a unified financial theory of the firm. A review of recent developments in the economics of banking and then monetary economics leads to a conclusion assessing present-day systems of central banking and proposing financial and monetary reform.

Money, Banking, and the Business Cycle

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Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137336560
Total Pages : 573 pages
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Book Synopsis Money, Banking, and the Business Cycle by : B. Simpson

Download or read book Money, Banking, and the Business Cycle written by B. Simpson and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-07-02 with total page 573 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The business cycle is a complex phenomenon. On the surface, it involves a multitude of mechanisms, such as oscillations in interest rates, prices, wages, unemployment, output, and spending. But a deeper understanding requires a unifying theory to make these various parts whole. Money, Banking, and the Business Cycle provides a comprehensive framework for analyzing these mechanisms, and offers a robust prescription for reducing financial instability over the long-term. Volume II refutes Keynesian and real business cycle theories and provides policy prescriptions to virtually eliminate the cycle. Simpson offers a detailed analysis of several historical monetary systems around the world and shows the causes and effects of fiat money and fractional-reserve banking, as well as a 100-percent reserve gold standard.

Reassessing the Presidency

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Publisher : Ludwig von Mises Institute
ISBN 13 : 1610166140
Total Pages : 619 pages
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Book Synopsis Reassessing the Presidency by : David Gordon

Download or read book Reassessing the Presidency written by David Gordon and published by Ludwig von Mises Institute. This book was released on 2013-09-19 with total page 619 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Everyone seems to agree that brutal dictators and despotic rulers deserve scorn and worse. But why have historians been so willing to overlook the despotic actions of the United States' own presidents? You can scour libraries from one end to the other and encounter precious few criticisms of America's worst despots.

The founders imagined that the president would be a collegial leader with precious little power who constantly faced the threat of impeachment. Today, however, the president orders thousands of young men and women to danger and death in foreign lands, rubber stamps regulations that throw enterprises into upheaval, controls the composition of the powerful Federal Reserve, and manages the priorities millions of swarms of bureaucrats that vex the citizenry in every way.

It is not too much of a stretch to say that the president embodies the Leviathan state as we know it. Or, more precisely, it is not an individual president so much as the very institution of the presidency that has been the major impediment of liberty. The presidency as the founders imagined it has been displaced by democratically ratified serial despotism. And, for that reason, it must be stopped.

Every American president seems to strive to make the historians' A-list by doing big and dramatic things—wars, occupations, massive programs, tyrannies large and small—in hopes of being considered among the "greats" such as Lincoln, Wilson, and FDR. They always imagine themselves as honored by future generations: the worse their crimes, the more the accolades.

Well, the free ride ends with Reassessing the Presidency: The Rise of the Executive State and the Decline of Freedom, edited by John Denson.

This remarkable volume (825 pages including index and bibliography) is the first full-scale revision of the official history of the U.S. executive state. It traces the progression of power exercised by American presidents from the early American Republic up to the eventual reality of the power-hungry Caesars which later appear as president in American history. Contributors examine the usual judgments of the historical profession to show the ugly side of supposed presidential greatness.

The mission inherent in this undertaking is to determine how the presidency degenerated into the office of American Caesar. Did the character of the man who held the office corrupt it, or did the power of the office, as it evolved, corrupt the man? Or was it a combination of the two? Was there too much latent power in the original creation of the office as the Anti-Federalists claimed? Or was the power externally created and added to the position by corrupt or misguided men?

There's never been a better guide to everything awful about American presidents. No, you won't get the civics text approach of see no evil. Essay after essay details depredations that will shock you, and wonder how American liberty could have ever survived in light of the rule of these people.

Contributors include George Bittlingmayer, John V. Denson, Marshall L. DeRosa, Thomas J. DiLorenzo, Lowell Gallaway, Richard M. Gamble, David Gordon, Paul Gottfried, Randall G. Holcombe, Hans-Hermann Hoppe, Jeffrey Rogers Hummel, Michael Levin, Yuri N. Maltsev, William Marina, Ralph Raico, Joseph Salerno, Barry Simpson, Joseph Stromberg, H. Arthur Scott Trask, Richard Vedder, and Clyde Wilson.

The End of Money and the Future of Civilization

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Publisher : Chelsea Green Publishing
ISBN 13 : 160358224X
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book The End of Money and the Future of Civilization written by Thomas Greco and published by Chelsea Green Publishing. This book was released on 2009-06-04 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like the proverbial fish who doesn’t know what water is, we swim in an economy built on money that few of us comprehend, and, most definitely, what we don’t know is hurting us. Very few people realize that the nature of money has changed profoundly over the past three centuries, or—as has been clear with the latest global financial crisis—the extent to which it has become a political instrument used to centralize power, concentrate wealth, and subvert popular government. On top of that, the economic growth imperative inherent in the present global monetary system is a main driver of global warming and other environmental crises. The End of Money and the Future of Civilization demystifies the subjects of money, banking, and finance by tracing historical landmarks and important evolutionary shifts that have changed the essential nature of money. Greco’s masterful work lays out the problems and then looks to the future for a next stage in money’s evolution that can liberate us as individuals and communities from the current grip of centralized and politicized money power. Greco provides specific design proposals and exchange-system architectures for local, regional, national, and global financial systems. He offers strategies for their implementation and outlines actions grassroots organizations, businesses, and governments will need to take to achieve success. Ultimately, The End of Money and the Future of Civilization provides the necessary understanding— for entrepreneurs, activists, and civic leaders—to implement approaches toward monetary liberation. These approaches would empower communities, preserve democratic institutions, and begin to build economies that are sustainable, democratic, and insulated from the financial crises that plague the dominant monetary system.

Banking in an Unregulated Environment (RLE Banking & Finance)

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136269274
Total Pages : 202 pages
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Download or read book Banking in an Unregulated Environment (RLE Banking & Finance) written by Lynne Pierson Doti and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-05-02 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The study of financial history has never been more important. This volume focuses on theories about the relationship of financial markets to the rest of the economy. Searching out information on financial institutions and markets from the past, this work tests theories from the 1980s and 90s with this data, mainly in two fields of economics: financial structure and performance and economic development. Understanding and testing the relationship between money and credit and the level of output in the economy, the author emphasizes, may help predict or prevent business cycles and even make it possible to increase the rate of development and growth of an economy. Although this volume focuses on one geographical and historical area of the US economy, the lessons and implications are relevant for the global economy of the 21st century.

Money and the Market

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136371818
Total Pages : 241 pages
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Book Synopsis Money and the Market by : Kevin Dowd

Download or read book Money and the Market written by Kevin Dowd and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-16 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kevin Dowd asserts that state intervention into financial and monetary systems has failed, and that we would be better off if financial markets were left to regulate themselves. This collection will appeal to students, researchers and policy makers in the monetary and financial area.