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Fall 1989

Vol. 9 No. 2

Alternatives to Government Fiat Money

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Introduction: Alternatives to Government Fiat Money

By James A. Dorn

Reductionist Reflections on the Monetary Constitution

By James M. Buchanan

The Government’s License to Create Money

By Richard H. Timberlake Jr.

From a Random-Walk Monetary Standard to a Monetazy Constitution

By David I. Fand

Comment on From a Random-Walk Monetary Standard to a Monetazy Constitution

By Bennett T. McCallum

A Tribute to F. A. Hayek

By Gerald P. O’Driscoll Jr.

Private Money: An Idea Whose Time Has Come

By Richard W. Rahn

Comment on Private Money: An Idea Whose Time Has Come

By Stephen H. Axilrod

What Kinds of Monetary Institutions Would a Free Market Deliver?

By Lawrence H. White

Comments on What Kinds of Monetary Institutions Would a Free Market Deliver?

By Richard M. Cooper and Karen Palasek

Can Monetary Disequilibrium Be Eliminated?

By Leland B. Yeager and Robert L. Greenfield

Comment on Can Monetary Disequilibrium Be Eliminated?

By Allan H. Meltzer

Legal Restrictions, Financial Weakening, and the Lender of Last Resort

By George Selgin

Comments on Legal Restrictions, Financial Weakening, and the Lender of Last Resort

By Thomas Humphrey and William A. Niskanen

The Future of Price Stability in a Fiat Money World

By Jerry L. Jordan

Book Review

Selected Essays of Gottfried Haberler by Anthony Y. C. Koo

By Thomas D. Willett

Keynes’ Monetary Theory: A Different Interpretation by Allan H. Meltzer

By Thomas Humphrey

Unfair Competition: The Profits of Nonprofits by James T. Bennett and Thomas J. DiLorenzo

By Dwight R. Lee

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