First published 1985

The Case for a Genuine Gold Dollar

Name: The Case for a Genuine Gold Dollar
Author: Murray N. Rothbard

The Gold Standard: Perspectives in the Austrian School . Edited with an Introduction by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr. Copyright © 1992. The Ludwig von Mises Institute. Auburn, Ala. Pp. 116-130; The Gold Standard: An Austrian Perspective . Lexington, MA: D.C. Heath, 1985, pp. 1-17; Reprinted in The Logic of Action One: Method, Money, and the Austrian School . Glos, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd., 1997, pp. 364-383. PDF edition of this article .Updated May 10, 2010

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Money, banking & crises Austrian theory & method

Rothbard argues for a monetary system based on genuine gold backing, rejecting fiat currency and defending commodity-based money.

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Murray N. Rothbard 1926–1995

Murray N. Rothbard (1926–1995) was an American economist, economic historian, and libertarian political philosopher, and perhaps Ludwig von Mises’s most important American student, attending Mises’s NYU seminar in the 1950s. Read more about Murray N. Rothbard.

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