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First published 2001

The Case for a 100 Percent Gold Dollar

by Murray N. Rothbard

Mises Institute, 200177 pagesISBN 9780945466345Updated February 18, 2011

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Author
Murray N. Rothbard
First published
2001
Format
PDF
Pages
77
ISBN
9780945466345
Publisher
Mises Institute
License
Published here by permission. The work itself reserves all rights; it is not Creative Commons.

Money, banking & crises

Rothbard not only argues for the gold standard; he shows how it can be restored in a practical, step-by-step plan. No other system will stop the seemingly endless monetary inflation of the Federal Reserve system. He also makes his strongest case against fractional reserve banking. This essay was written in 1962 and this edition includes Rothbard's sweeping introduction from 1991, in which he argues that the true gold standard is more viable than ever.

Contents of this volume include:

  • The Case for a 100 Percent Gold Dollar
  • Money and Freedom
  • The Dollar: Independent Name or Unit of Weight
  • The Decline from Weight to Name: Monopolizing the Mint
  • The Decline from Weight to Name: Encouraging Bank Inflation
  • 100 Percent Gold Banking
  • Objections to 100 Percent Gold
  • Professor Yeager and 100 Percent Gold
  • The 100 Percent Gold Tradition
  • The Road Ahead

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77 pages and 11 chapters in the edition this archive serves.
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Who wrote The Case for a 100 Percent Gold Dollar?
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 95 of Rothbard's works.

What's in it

11 chapters · page numbers are this file's

  1. Prefacep. 6
  2. The Case for a 100 Percent Gold Dollarp. 20
  3. Money and Freedomp. 21
  4. The Dollar: Independent Name or Unit of Weight?p. 22
  5. The Decline from Weight to Name: Monopolizing the Mintp. 33
  6. The Decline from Weight to Name: Encouraging Bank Inflationp. 39
  7. 100 Percent Gold Bankingp. 43
  8. Objections to 100 Percent Goldp. 53
  9. Professor Yeager and100 Percent Goldp. 56
  10. The 100 Percent Gold Traditionp. 62
  11. The Road Aheadp. 66
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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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