ISIL Freedom Network: Global > Scholarly and In-Depth Studies > Banking, Money, Finance

Electronic money and the market process
Source: Centre for Independent Studies/Policy
Author: Adam Mikkelsen
Country: United States

The development of digital cash may revive the prospects for private money to limit state power. (Winter 1998/1999)

Digital cash & monetary freedom
Source: Internet Society
Author: Jon W. Matonis
Country: United States

Matonis suggests that private digital cash has the potential to compete directly with government-issued money. (1995)

Possible economic consequences of digital cash
Source: First Monday
Author: Tatsuo Tanaka
Country: United States

The author suggests that true, anonymous, digital money could revolutionize commerce and threaten government authority. He suggests that an international regulation regime would likely arise, but he doesn't suggest a mechanism by which this could happen. (1996)

Currency competition: Some options considered
Source: Libertarian Alliance
Author: Antoine Clarke
Country: United States

Clarke, a former Economic and Political Adviser to the Finance Minister of the Slovak Republic, considers approaches for privatizing money and the benefits of competition. (1994)

Inflation and the federal reserve: The consequences of political money supply
Source: Cato Institute
Author: Lawrence H. White
Country: United States

The Federal Reserve is subject to pressures and incentives that politicize its control of the money supply. A free-market monetary system would break out of this bind. (1982)

Gold, paper, or ... is there a better money?
Source: Cato Institute
Author: David Friedman
Country: United States

An examination of different types of money -- commodity monies, fractional reserve monies, and fiat monies -- as well as the relative superiority of private money to government currency. (1985)

The case for free banking: Then and now
Source: Cato Institute
Author: G.A. Selgin
Country: United States

The author calls for restoring the right of commercial banks to issue their own paper money, and retaining Federal Reserve dollars for use only as bank reserves for settling interbank clearings. (1985)

Monetary and fiscal rules
Source: Centre for Independent Studies/Policy
Country: United States

The world is finally emerging from a century of statism, but has yet to deal with the transformation of money and the public budget into tools of discretionary policy. (1998)

Toward a free market monetary system
Source: Center for Libertarian Studies
Author: F.A. Hayek
Country: United States

The Nobel laureate economist discusses the prospect for privately issued money as a superior alternative to state-issued fiat currency. (Adobe Acrobat file) (1977)

Monopoly and competition in money
Source: Journal of Libertarian Studies
Author: James Rolph Edwards
Country: United States

The author sees private money as a credible alternative to government currencies as long as people can substitute among competing monies at market-determined rates. (Adobe Acrobat file) (1980)

Shelley's critique of paper money and the British national debt
Source: Journal of Libertarian Studies
Author: Paul Cantor
Country: United States

Despite his slightly leftish reputation, the poet Shelley was a fan of hard money and sensible finance. (Adobe Acrobat file) (1997)

Do We Need the IMF and the World Bank?
Source: IEA
Author: Sir Alan Walters
Country: United States

"Lady Thatcher's former economic advisor considers the performance of these two international institutions on their fiftieth anniversaries, and considers them in need of abolition or at least major reform." (Adobe Acrobat) (Also available in hardcopy) (1994)

De-nationalizing capital: the emergence of 'brand name' currency
Source: CIS/Policy
Author: Jerry Jordan
Country: United States

The "brand name" of money used to denominate contracts and trade assets is becoming more important than "local content" or the "national origin" of currency. (Adobe Acrobat) (09/01)

The IMF's dubious proposal for a universal bankruptcy law for sovereign debtors
Source: Cato Institute
Author: Anna J. Schwartz
Country: United States

"Perhaps the time has come to abandon debt-based development ... " (PDF file) (3/5/03)

Should we have faith in central banks?
Source: IEA
Author: Otmar Issing
Country: United States

"In this Occasional Paper, Professor Otmar Issing, the leading monetary economist and one of Europe's most influential central bankers, argues that price stability is a 'common good' and that it is better in the hands of an independent central bank with a clear price stability mandate." (Adobe Acrobat) (05/13/02)

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