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What Has Government
Done to Our Money?
by
Murray N. Rothbard
The Ludwig von Mises Institute
Auburn University
Auburn, Alabama 36832
What Has Government Done to Our Money?
Thanks to Burton S. Blumert of Camino Coin,
Burlingame, California, for the coins used on the cover.
Copyright \u00a9 1963, 1985, 1990 by Murray N. Rothbard

All rights reserved. Written permission must be secured
from the publisher to use or reproduce any part of this
book, except for brief quotations in critical reviews or arti-
cles.

Published by Praxeology Press of the Ludwig von Mises

Institute, Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama 36849 Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 90-63803 ISBN: 0-945466-10-2

Introduction to Fourth Edition by Llewellyn H. Rockwell
I. Introduction
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Murray N. Rothbard
II. Money in a Free Society

1. The Value of Exchange
2. Barter
3. Indirect Exchange
4. Benefits of Money
5. The Monetary Unit
6. The Shape of Money
7. Private Coinage
8. TheProper Supply of Money
9. The Problem ofHoarding
10. Stabilize the Price Level?
11. Coexisting Moneys
12. Money-Warehouses
13. Summary

III. Government Meddling With Money
1. The Revenue of Government
2. The Economic Effects of Inflation
3. Compulsory Monopoly of the Mint
4. Debasement
5. Gresham's Law and Coinage
6. Summary: Government and Coinage
7. Permitting Banks to Refuse Payment
8. Central Banking: Removing the Checks on Inflation
9. Central Banking: Directing the Inflation
10. Going Off the Gold Standard
11. Fiat Money and the Gold Problem
12. Fiat Money and Gresham's Law
13. Government and Money

IV. The Monetary Breakdown of the West
1. Phase I: The Classical Gold Standard, 1815-1914
2. Phase II: World War I and After
3. Phase III: The Gold Exchange Standard (Britain and the United States)

1926-1931
4. Phase IV: Fluctuating Fiat Currencies, 1931-1945...
5. Phase V: Bretton Woods and the New Gold Exchange Standard

(the United States) 1945 1968
6. Phase VI: The Unraveling of Bretton Woods, 1968-1971
7. Phase VII: The End of Bretton Woods: Fluctuating Fiat Currencies,
August-December, 1971
8. Phase VIII: The Smithsonian Agreement, December 1971-February 1973
9. Phase IX: Fluctuating Fiat Currencies, March 1973-?

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