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Cato Journal
An Interdisciplinary Journal of Public Policy Analysis
Volume 9 Number 2, Fall 1989

Alternatives to Government Fiat Money

James A. Dorn
Introduction: Alternatives to Government Fiat Money
(PDF, 18 pp., 672 Kb)

James M. Buchanan
Reductionist Reflections on the Monetary Constitution
(PDF, 5 pp., 187 Kb)

Richard H, Timberlake
The Government’s License to Create Money
(PDF, 23 pp., 852 Kb)

David I. Fand
From a Random-Walk Monetary Standard to a Monetazy Constitution
(PDF, 21 pp., 794 Kb)

Gerald P. O’Driseoll, Jr.
A Tribute to F. A. Hayek
(PDF, 6 pp., 255 Kb)

Richard W. Rahn
Private Money: An Idea Whose Time Has Come
(PDF, 14 pp., 549 Kb)

Lawrence H. White
What Kinds of Monetary Institutions Would a Free Market Deliver?
(PDF, 35 pp., 1,338 Kb)

Leland B. Yeager and Robert L. Greenfield
Can Monetary Disequilibrium Be Eliminated?
(PDF, 23 pp., 893 Kb)

George A. Selgin
Legal Restrictions, Financial Weakening, and the Lender of Last Resort
(PDF, 39 pp., 1,511 Kb)

Jerry L. Jordan
The Future of Price Stability in a Fiat Money World
(PDF, 16 pp., 603 Kb)

Book Reviews

Selected Essays of Gottfried Haberler
Anthony Y. C. Koo
Reviewed by Thomas D. Willett
(PDF, 3 pp., 139 Kb)

Keynes’ Monetary Theory: A Different Interpretation
Allan H. Meltzer
Reviewed by Thomas M. Humphrey
(PDF, 4 pp., 187 Kb)

Unfair Competition: The Profits of Nonprofits
James T. Bennett and Thomas J. DiLorenzo
Reviewed by Dwight B. Lee
(PDF, 4 pp., 166 Kb)

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