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# Fall 1989 

Vol. 9 No. 2 

Alternatives to Government Fiat Money

##### Articles 

#### [Introduction: Alternatives to Government Fiat Money ](/cato-journal/fall-1989/introduction-alternatives-government-fiat-money)

By [James A. Dorn](https://www.cato.org/people/james-dorn) 

#### [Reductionist Reflections on the Monetary Constitution ](/cato-journal/fall-1989/reductionist-reflections-monetary-constitution)

By [James M. Buchanan](https://www.cato.org/people/james-buchanan) 

#### [The Government’s License to Create Money ](/cato-journal/fall-1989/governments-license-create-money)

By [Richard H. Timberlake Jr.](https://www.cato.org/people/richard-timberlake) 

#### [From a Random-Walk Monetary Standard to a Monetazy Constitution ](/cato-journal/fall-1989/random-walk-monetary-standard-monetazy-constitution)

By David I. Fand 

#### [Comment on From a Random-Walk Monetary Standard to a Monetazy Constitution ](/cato-journal/fall-1989/comment-random-walk-monetary-standard-monetazy-constitution)

By Bennett T. McCallum 

#### [A Tribute to F. A. Hayek ](/cato-journal/fall-1989/tribute-f-hayek)

By Gerald P. O’Driscoll Jr. 

#### [Private Money: An Idea Whose Time Has Come ](/cato-journal/fall-1989/private-money-idea-whose-time-has-come)

By [Richard W. Rahn](https://www.cato.org/people/richard-rahn) 

#### [Comment on Private Money: An Idea Whose Time Has Come ](/cato-journal/fall-1989/comment-private-money-idea-whose-time-has-come)

By Stephen H. Axilrod 

#### [What Kinds of Monetary Institutions Would a Free Market Deliver? ](/cato-journal/fall-1989/what-kinds-monetary-institutions-would-free-market-deliver)

By [Lawrence H. White](https://www.cato.org/people/lawrence-white) 

#### [Comments on What Kinds of Monetary Institutions Would a Free Market Deliver? ](/cato-journal/fall-1989/comments-what-kinds-monetary-institutions-would-free-market-deliver)

By Richard M. Cooper and Karen Palasek 

#### [Can Monetary Disequilibrium Be Eliminated? ](/cato-journal/fall-1989/can-monetary-disequilibrium-be-eliminated)

By [Leland B. Yeager](https://www.cato.org/people/leland-yeager) and Robert L. Greenfield 

#### [Comment on Can Monetary Disequilibrium Be Eliminated? ](/cato-journal/fall-1989/comment-can-monetary-disequilibrium-be-eliminated)

By Allan H. Meltzer 

#### [Legal Restrictions, Financial Weakening, and the Lender of Last Resort ](/cato-journal/fall-1989/legal-restrictions-financial-weakening-lender-last-resort)

By [George Selgin](https://www.cato.org/people/george-selgin) 

#### [Comments on Legal Restrictions, Financial Weakening, and the Lender of Last Resort ](/cato-journal/fall-1989/comments-legal-restrictions-financial-weakening-lender-last-resort)

By Thomas Humphrey and [William A. Niskanen](https://www.cato.org/people/william-niskanen) 

#### [The Future of Price Stability in a Fiat Money World ](/cato-journal/fall-1989/future-price-stability-fiat-money-world)

By [Jerry L. Jordan](https://www.cato.org/people/jerry-jordan) 

##### Book Review 

##### [*Selected Essays of Gottfried Haberler* by Anthony Y. C. Koo](/cato-journal/fall-1989/selected-essays-gottfried-haberler-anthony-y-c-koo)

By Thomas D. Willett 

##### [*Keynes’ Monetary Theory: A Different Interpretation* by Allan H. Meltzer](/cato-journal/fall-1989/keynes-monetary-theory-different-interpretation-allan-h-meltzer)

By Thomas Humphrey 

##### [*Unfair Competition: The Profits of Nonprofits* by James T. Bennett and Thomas J. DiLorenzo](/cato-journal/fall-1989/unfair-competition-profits-nonprofits-james-t-bennett-thomas-j-dilorenzo)

By Dwight R. Lee 

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