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.
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“Rational Expectations, Politics and Stagflation”
“Rational Expectations, Politics and Stagflation” Gerald P. O’Driscoll, Jr. Chapter 7 of: Time, Uncertainty and Disequilibrium: Exploration of Austrian Themes ed. Mario Rizzo Lexington, MA: Lexington Books, 1979.
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Interest on the Debt Will Make Things Interesting
Interest on the Debt Will Make Things Interesting The San Francisco Examiner Ralph Benko
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“Washington Is Quietly Repudiating Its Debts”
“Washington Is Quietly Repudiating Its Debts” Gerald P. O’Driscoll, Jr. The Wall Street Journal, August 22, 2008.
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“Do We Really Need a Central Bank?” – A Talk by Steve Horwitz
Economic Liberty Lecture Series: Steve Horwitz from The Future of Freedom Foundation on Vimeo. Professor Steve Horwitz, Charles A. Dana Professor of Economics at St. Lawrence University, gave a talk entitled, “Do We Really Need a Central Bank?,” during a student lecture series sponsored by the GMU Economics Society, the Future Freedom Foundation, and the…
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“Asset Bubbles and Their Consequences”
“Asset Bubbles and Their Consequences” Gerald P. O’Driscoll, Jr. Cato Institute Briefing Papers, May 17, 2008. Via the Cato Institute
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“Subprime Monetary Policy”
“Supbrime Monetary Policy” Gerald P. O’Driscoll, Jr. The Freeman: Ideas on Liberty, November 2007 Via the Cato Institute
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“Money and Monetary Policy for the Twenty-first Century”
This essay challenges the conventional wisdom about money and monetary policy. The role of money in fostering prosperity is a function of the quality, as well as the quantity, of money. Inflation always harms the performance of an economy. Deflations caused by productivity and innovation can be virtuous. A definition of a non-inflationary environment is…
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Two Philosophies of Money
Two Philosophies of Money: The Conflict of Trust and Authority S. Herbert Frankel New York: St. Martin’s Press/Basil Blackwell, 1977.
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The Rationale of Central Banking and the Free Banking Alternative
“In the present century centralised banking systems have come to be regarded as the usual concomitant, if not one of the conditions of the attainment of an advanced stage of economic development. The belief in the desirability of central bank organisation is universal. Recently also there have been attempts to widen the unit of control…
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A History of American Currency
A History of American Currency William Graham Sumner New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1884. Via Liberty Fund
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Gold: The Protector and Creator of Jobs
Gold: The Protector and Creator of Jobs For Sound Money Hugo Salinas Price