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The Case for a 100 Percent Gold Dollar (The Case for a 100% Gold Dollar) (Book/ Paperback)

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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

About the Author(s)

Murray N. Rothbard, the author of 25 books and thousands of articles, was a historian, philosopher, and dean of the Austrian School of economics. The S.J. Hall Distinguished Professor of Economics at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, he was also Academic Vice President of the Ludwig von Mises Institute in Auburn, AL.