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A History of Money and Banking in the United States Before the Twentieth Century

A History of Money and Banking in the United States Before the Twentieth Century is a free lecture series (64 recordings, 13 hours) you can stream or download at freecapitalists.org, with Murray N. Rothbard.

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1. The History of Money and Banking Before the Twentieth Century

Murray N. Rothbard · 4:03 · 1.8 MB

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2. Shilling and Dollar Manipulations

Murray N. Rothbard · 3:14 · 1.2 MB

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3. Government Paper Money

Murray N. Rothbard · 9:31 · 3.3 MB

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4. Private Bank Notes

Murray N. Rothbard · 3:32 · 1.3 MB

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5. Revolutionary War Finance

Murray N. Rothbard · 6:34 · 2.4 MB

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6. The Bank of North America

Murray N. Rothbard · 5:01 · 1.8 MB

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7. The United States: Bimetallic Coinage

Murray N. Rothbard · 5:11 · 1.9 MB

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8. The First Bank of the United States, 1791-1811

Murray N. Rothbard · 6:44 · 2.4 MB

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9. The War of 1812 and Its Aftermath

Murray N. Rothbard · 17:36 · 6.2 MB

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10. The Second Bank of the United States, 1816-1833

Murray N. Rothbard · 14:43 · 5.2 MB

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11. The Jacksonian Movement and the Bank War

Murray N. Rothbard · 25:32 · 8.9 MB

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12. The Jacksonians and the Coinage Legislation of 1834

Murray N. Rothbard · 12:07 · 4.3 MB

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13. Decentralized Banking from the 1830's to the Civil War

Murray N. Rothbard · 4:39 · 1.8 MB

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14. A Free Market “CENTRAL BANK”

Murray N. Rothbard · 1:40 · 776 KB

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15. A False Start

Murray N. Rothbard · 0:58 · 513 KB

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16. Operation Begin

Murray N. Rothbard · 2:57 · 1.2 MB

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17. The Country Banks Resist

Murray N. Rothbard · 0:59 · 522 KB

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18. Suffolk's Stabalizing Effects

Murray N. Rothbard · 2:38 · 1.1 MB

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19. The Stuffolk Difference

Murray N. Rothbard · 3:03 · 1.2 MB

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20. The Stuffolk's Demise

Murray N. Rothbard · 1:57 · 874 KB

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21. The Civil War

Murray N. Rothbard · 1:19 · 655 KB

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22. Greenbacks

Murray N. Rothbard · 15:56 · 5.6 MB

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23. The Public Debt and the National Banking System

Murray N. Rothbard · 25:35 · 8.9 MB

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24. The Post Civil War Era: 1865-1879

Murray N. Rothbard · 22:17 · 7.8 MB

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25. The Gold Standard Era with the National Banking System, 1879-1913

Murray N. Rothbard · 5:15 · 2.0 MB

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26. Prices, Wages, and Real Wages

Murray N. Rothbard · 1:58 · 862 KB

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27. Interest Rates

Murray N. Rothbard · 2:21 · 1004 KB

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28. A Burst in Productivity

Murray N. Rothbard · 1:56 · 854 KB

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29. Capital Formation

Murray N. Rothbard · 8:00 · 2.9 MB

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30. 1896: The Transformation of the American Party System

Murray N. Rothbard · 17:34 · 6.2 MB

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31. The Progressive Movement

Murray N. Rothbard · 5:22 · 2.0 MB

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32. Unhappiness with the National Banking System

Murray N. Rothbard · 6:02 · 2.3 MB

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33. The Beginnings of the Reform Movement: The Indianapolis Monetary Convention

Murray N. Rothbard · 29:15 · 10.2 MB

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34. The Gold Standard Act of 1900 and After

Murray N. Rothbard · 12:53 · 4.6 MB

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35. Charles A. Conant, Surplus Capital, and Economic Imperialism

Murray N. Rothbard · 22:51 · 8.0 MB

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36. Conant, Monetary Imperialism, and the Gold-Exchange Standard

Murray N. Rothbard · 33:20 · 11.6 MB

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37. Jacob Schiff Ignites the Drive for a Central Bank

Murray N. Rothbard · 11:43 · 4.2 MB

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38. The Panic of 1907 and Mobilization for a Central Bank

Murray N. Rothbard · 30:58 · 10.8 MB

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39. The Final Phase: Coping with the Democratic Ascendancy

Murray N. Rothbard · 8:31 · 3.1 MB

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40. Conclusion to Part II

Murray N. Rothbard · 1:10 · 604 KB

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41. From Hoover to Roosevelt: The Federal Reserve and the Financial Elites

Murray N. Rothbard · 1:52 · 850 KB

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42. The Early Fed, 1914-1928: The Morgan Years

Murray N. Rothbard · 13:15 · 4.7 MB

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43. The Hoover Fed: Harrison and Young

Murray N. Rothbard · 14:02 · 5.0 MB

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44. The Advent of Eugene Meyer, Jr.

Murray N. Rothbard · 15:04 · 5.4 MB

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45. Meyer in the Hoover Administration

Murray N. Rothbard · 22:26 · 7.9 MB

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46. The New Deal: Going off Gold

Murray N. Rothbard · 23:08 · 8.1 MB

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47. Banking and Financial Legislation: 1933-1935

Murray N. Rothbard · 41:56 · 14.6 MB

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48. Marriner S. Eccles and the Banking Act of 1935

Murray N. Rothbard · 23:11 · 8.1 MB

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49. Epilogue: Return of the Morgans

Murray N. Rothbard · 6:33 · 2.4 MB

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50. The Gold-Exchange Standard in the Interwar Years

Murray N. Rothbard · 2:38 · 1.1 MB

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51. The Classical Gold Standard

Murray N. Rothbard · 5:43 · 2.2 MB

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52. Britain Faces the Postwar World

Murray N. Rothbard · 8:42 · 3.2 MB

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53. Return to Gold at $4.86: The Cunliffe Committee and After

Murray N. Rothbard · 16:16 · 5.8 MB

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54. American Support for the Return to Gold at $4.86: The Morgan Connection

Murray N. Rothbard · 4:17 · 1.7 MB

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55. The Establishment of the New Gold Standard of the 1920s: Bullion, Not Coin

Murray N. Rothbard · 6:45 · 2.5 MB

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56. The Gold-Exchange Standard, Not Gold

Murray N. Rothbard · 30:33 · 10.7 MB

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57. The Gold-Exchange Standard in Operation: 1926-1929

Murray N. Rothbard · 8:16 · 3.0 MB

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58. Depression and the End of the Gold-Sterling-Exchange Standard: 1929-1931

Murray N. Rothbard · 15:36 · 5.5 MB

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59. Epilogue to Part IV

Murray N. Rothbard · 3:31 · 1.4 MB

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60. The New Deal and the International Monetary System

Murray N. Rothbard · 1:02 · 558 KB

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61. The Background of the 1920s

Murray N. Rothbard · 29:14 · 10.2 MB

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62. The First New Deal: Dollar Nationalism

Murray N. Rothbard · 55:12 · 19.1 MB

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63. The Second New Deal: The Dollar Triumphant

Murray N. Rothbard · 23:28 · 8.2 MB

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64. Epilogue to Part V

Murray N. Rothbard · 9:37 · 3.5 MB

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