Libertarian Views on Money - its Creation and Control
Is government control of money compatible with freedom of the
individual?
A collection of links to sources of information on libertarianism and money,
banking and finance covering the economics, politics and philosophy of power
over money creation.
- The Libertarian Alliance
- Among its publications are some on money, a few of which are listed below.
- The Micropolitics
of Free Market Money a proposal by Antoine Clarke
- Currency
Competition some options considered by Antoine Clarke
- The Uses
and Abuses of Money by Nick Elliott Politicians have often laboured
under the delusion that money is something created and manipulable by
themselves, when in fact it is the spontaneous institution of a free society
and will continue to evolve in ways outside their grasp.
- Adam
Smith on Money, Banking and Macroeconomic Order
- By Andrew Farrant, Libertarian Heritage No. 16. (A paper published by
the Libertarian Alliance).
- FAME: The Foundation for the Advancement of
Monetary Education
- The goal of FAME's web site is to become the principal source of
intellectual ammunition in support of "honest money."
- Free-Market.Net
Articles on Banking, Money, Finance
- A directory maintained by the Free-Market.Net website.
- The Economic Means to
Freedom
- A series of essays by Frederick Mann. It was one of a number of resources
on libertarianism at the BuildFreedom.com website.
- Ayn Rand on Money
- An extended quotation from page 387 of Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand, the American philosopher.
- Monetary and Banking
Policy by the Cato Institute
- The Institute's aims are the promotion of public policy based on
individual liberty, limited government, free markets, and peace. Many
publications on money are available from its web server.
- Digital Cash
and Monetary Freedom by Jon W. Matonis
- Matonis advocates a privately-managed digital cash system. The Internet is
a new world and a new world demands a new currency - a new standard of value.
This standard should be dictated by the market.
- Money
Without Government & Banks by Michael E. Marotta.
- This article was originally published in Practical Anarchy, November 1993.
- The
Future of Money edited by Robert Knautz. Articles from Policy
Spotlight vol. 1 no. 1, September-October 1997.
- Alternative Ökonomie?!
- The material on this site is in German - there are hyperlinks to English
language texts/sites.
- Cyberhaven
- The Cyberhaven domain is a web home to a variety of separate sites having
unifying themes of liberty, libertarianism, capitalism, individualism, free
enterprise, and free markets. It has good coverage of books on these subjects.
- Democracy and
Government Control of the Money Supply
- When coins were the predominant form of payment governments controlled
minting. The development of modern banking and paper money broke the
government monopoly of money creation and fostered the growth of democracy.
Although not written from an explicitly libertarian perspective this essay,
based on A History of
Money from Ancient Times to the Present Day by Glyn Davies, is on a theme
of interest to libertarians.
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