First published 2008
The Case Against the Fed
The Case Against the Fed by Murray N. Rothbard is available as a free PDF and EPUB download at freecapitalists.org.
- Murray N. Rothbard
- First published
- 2008
- Format
- PDF and EPUB
- Pages
- 164
- ISBN
- 9780945466178
- Publisher
- Mises Institute
- License
- Published here by permission.
The most powerful case against the American central bank ever written. This work begins with a mini-treatment of money and banking theory, and then plunges right in with the real history of the Federal Reserve System. Rothbard covers the struggle between competing elites and how they converged with the Fed.
Rothbard calls for the abolition of the central bank and a restoration of the gold standard. His popular treatment incorporates the best and most up-to-date scholarship on the Fed's origins and effects.
The contents of this volume include:
- Introduction: Money and Politics
- The Genesis of Money
- What is the Optimum Quantity of Money?
- Monetary Inflation and Counterfeiting
- Legalized Counterfeiting
- Loan Banking
- Deposit Banking
- Problems for the Fractional-Reserve Banker: The Criminal Law
- Problems for the Fractional-Reserve Banker: Insolvency
- Booms and Busts
- Types of Warehouse Receipts
- Enter the Central Bank
- Easing the Limits on Bank Credit Expansion
- The Central Bank Buys Assets
- Origins of the Federal Reserve: The Advent of the National Banking System
- Origins of the Federal Reserve: Wall Steet Discontent
- Putting Cartelization Across: The Progressive Line
- Putting a Central Bank Across: Manipulating a Movement, 1897-1902
- The Central Bank Movement Revives, 1906-1910
- Culmination at Jekyll Island
- The Fed at Last: Morgan-Controlled Inflation
- The New Deal and the Displacement of the Morgans
- Deposit "Insurance"
- How the Fed Rules and Inflates
- What Can Be Done?
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- Is The Case Against the Fed free to download?
- Yes. The complete 164-page PDF and EPUB downloads directly from this page (10.3 MB). There is no signup, no account and no paywall.
- How long is The Case Against the Fed?
- 164 pages, 28 chapters, and about 40,909 words in the edition this archive serves.
- Is The Case Against the Fed in the public domain?
- No. This edition is published here by permission and the work itself reserves all rights. It is free to read and download from this archive, but it is not public domain and not Creative Commons.
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- Yes. This archive holds a free recorded reading (25 recordings, 5.1 hours). It streams in the browser or downloads as audio, at no cost and with no signup.
- Who wrote The Case Against the Fed?
- 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. He earned a B.A. This archive holds 98 of Rothbard's works.
What's in it
28 chapters · 40,909 words · free to read here
- Cover Image
- Introduction: Money and Politics
- The Genesis of Money
- What is the Optimum Quantity of Money?
- Monetary Inflation and Counterfeiting
- Legalized Counterfeiting
- Loan Banking
- Deposit Banking
- Problems for the Fractional-Reserve Banker: The Criminal Law
- Problems for the Fractional-Reserve Banker: Insolvency
- Booms and Busts
- Types of Warehouse Receipts
- Enter the Central Bank
- Easing the Limits on Bank Credit Expansion
- The Central Bank Buys Assets
- Origins of the Federal Reserve: The Advent of the National Banking System
- Origins of the Federal Reserve: Wall Street Discontent
- Putting Cartelization Across: The Progressive Line
- Putting a Central Bank Across: Manipulating a Movement, 1897-1902
- The Central Bank Movement Revives, 1906-1910
- Culmination at Jekyll Island
- The Fed at Last: Morgan-Controlled Inflation
- The New Deal and the Displacement of the Morgans
- Deposit "Insurance"
- How the Fed Rules and Inflates
- What Can Be Done?
- Index
- Notes
In the lecture archive
Lectures that discuss The Case Against the Fed
10 recorded talks in this archive name this book. The 6 that discuss it most, each linked to the moment it comes up:
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Eliminating Monetary Externalities
I first wanted to call my book The Case Against the Euro in honor of Rothbard's grades, The Case Against the Fed.
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10. The Gold Standard in Theory and Myth (video)
His newer plan is the following, this came out in his book, The Case Against the Fed.
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The Truly Unintended Effects of the Fed
… things the Fed does is it alters the money supply, or alters the amount In this book, The Case Against the Fed, Rothbard opens up with a little discussion on the money supply and what the optimal quantity of money …
Further reading: The Case Against the Fed on The Austrian Economics Wiki.
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