Sound Money Project
The Sound Money Project was founded in January 2009 to conduct research and promote awareness about monetary stability and financial privacy. The project is comprised of leading academics and practitioners in money, banking, and macroeconomics. It offers regular commentary and in-depth analysis on monetary policy, alternative monetary systems, financial markets regulation, cryptocurrencies, and the history of monetary and macroeconomic thought.
Larry White to Lecture at GMU!
Date: Monday, April 19, 2010 Time: 5:00pm – 6:30pm Location: George Mason University — SUB II, Room 7 Address: 4400 University Drive Fairfax, VA The GMU Economics Society […]
Ferguson and Rogoff on the financial crisis
In this video panel on Bloomberg.com, economic historian and author The Ascent of Money, Niall Ferguson, discusses the financial crisis and global recession with economist and author of This Time […]
Florin Aftalion – The French Revolution: An Economic Interpretation
In this monograph, French economist Florin Aftalion sets out to rectify a great omission in most historical accounts of the French Revolution, namely to look at how economic, and especially […]
The Swinging Pendulum
On Monday, April 5, the Future of Freedom Foundation and the George Mason University Econ Society hosted a lecture1 by Dr. Richard Ebeling, professor of economics at Northwood University and […]
John Munro – The Monetary Origins of the ‘Price Revolution’
In this paper, John Munro of the Department of Economics, University of Toronto revisits the historical debate on the origins of the price revolution of the 16th century. Though some […]
We Are Not All Keynesians Now
The financial crisis and global recession has brought traditional Keynesian policies back to the fore. However, not all economists are Keynesians now.
Hyperinflation
“Inflation is a sustained increase in the aggregate price level. Hyperinflation is very high inflation. Although the threshold is arbitrary, economists generally reserve the term ‘hyperinflation’ to describe episodes when […]
“Why Default on U.S. Treasuries is Likely”
“Almost everyone is aware that federal government spending in the United States is scheduled to skyrocket, primarily because of Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid. Recent “stimulus” packages have accelerated the […]
“Misrepresenting ‘How We Arrived at This Moment’”
“What must be done to recover from this financial crisis? Barack Obama rightly stresses that we first must understand how today’s problems emerged. It is ‘only by understanding how we […]
“Stop Blaming Capitalism for Government Failures”
“But while capitalism may be a convenient scapegoat, it did not cause any of these problems. Indeed, whatever one wishes to call the unruly mixture of freedom and government controls […]
“Garrett Demands Further Answers from Geithner”
“Rep. Scott Garrett (R-NJ) is calling on Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner to clarify the uncertainty surrounding the status of the GSE debt; specifically, whether the corporate debt issued by Fannie […]
Dr. Richard Ebeling to talk at GMU!
Our friends at the GMU Economics Society & the Future of Freedom Foundation invite you to the last installment of the Economic Liberty Lecture Series of this year with Dr. Richard […]
