[![Alt-M: Ideas for an alternative monetary future](/build/cato_2020/images/alt-m.svg)](/alt-m) May 13, 2015 10:08AM # Instead of the Fed By [George Selgin](https://www.cato.org/people/george-selgin) --- SHARE That, some of you may recall, was the name of [a November 1, 2013 conference put on by the Mercatus Center](http://http://mercatus.org/events/instead-fed-past-and-present-alternatives-federal-reserve-system). (The full name was actually “Instead of the Fed: Past and Present Alternatives to the Federal Reserve System”). The proceedings of that conference–or most of them, at any rate–are now available in a [special issue of the *Journal of Financial Stability*](http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/15723089/17), edited by yours truly. Although online access to the articles is by subscription only, individual contributors have temporary, open links to their own articles. Here is mine on [“Synthetic Commodity Money.”](http://authors.elsevier.com/a/1Qxfl5bW6oIzDI) \[Cross-posted from [Alt‑M.org](http://www.alt-m.org/)\] ##### Related Tags [Monetary Policy](https://www.cato.org/monetary-policy), [Alt-M](https://www.cato.org/alt-m), [Center for Monetary and Financial Alternatives](https://www.cato.org/center-monetary-financial-alternatives) [![Creative Commons License](/build/cato_2020/images/creative-commons.svg)](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/) This work is licensed under a [Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/).