The Gold Standard versus Fiat Money

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Further reading:

What Has Government Done To Our Money? by Murray N. Rothbard

The Case for a 100 Percent Gold Dollar by Murray N. Rothbard

Gold vs. Fluctuating Fiat Exchange Rates by Murray N. Rothbard (Chapter 40 in Economic Controversies)

Economics of a Pure Gold Standard by Mark Skousen

Money: Sound and Unsound by Joseph T. Salerno (esp. Chapters 12–15)


The Costs of a Gold Standard by Roger W. Garrison (Chapter 4 in The Gold Standard: Perspectives in the Austrian School)

The Populist Case for the Gold Standard by Kristoffer Mousten Hansen

The Gold Standard in Contemporary Economic Principles Textbooks: A Survey by James Kimball

The Gold Standard: A Critique of Friedman, Mundell, Hayek, and Greenspan by Walter Block

The Case Against 2 Per Cent Inflation: From Negative Interest Rates to a 21st Century Gold Standard by Brendan Brown


After the Age of Inflation: Austrian Proposals for Monetary Reform by Jeffrey M. Herbener

Optimal Monetary Policy by Jörg Guido Hülsmann

The Ethics of Money Production by Jörg Guido Hülsmann

The Theory of Money and Credit by Ludwig von Mises + Study Guide

The Costs of Inflation Revisited by Steven Horwitz


The Gold Standard Did Not Cause the Great Depression: Review of Scott Sumner's 'The Midas Paradox: Financial Markets, Government Policy Shocks, and the Great Depression' by Robert P. Murphy

A Brief History of the Gold Standard, with a Focus on the United States by Robert P. Murphy (Chapter 2 in Understanding Money Mechanics)

A History of Money and Banking in the United States: The Colonial Era to World War II by Murray N. Rothbard

Gold and the Gold Standard by Edwin Walter Kemmerer

The Gold Standard and Its Future by T. E. Gregory