Policy issues

• Annelise Anderson proposes a free-banking solution to The Ruble Problem
• George S. Berger on Reforming Deposit Insurance and the Regulatory System
• Links to Cato Institute research on monetary and banking policy
• Kevin Dowd on Central Banks: Who Needs Them? (pdf file)
• Richard Ebeling's multi-part essay on Monetary Central Planning and the State (click on the "Monetary Policy" button)
• An unsigned essay on Governments and Money from the Cleveland Fed's 1995 Annual Report
• free-market.net's quick introduction to free banking
• Roger Garrison on Central Banking, Free Banking, and Financial Crises
• Ian Grigg's page on free banking
• Steve Hanke's columns for Forbes
• Articles on money, banking and finance from the Institute of Economic Affairs
• Jerry L. Jordan, President and CEO of the Cleveland Fed, on Central Banking and Monetary Policy
• Jordan on The Evolving Global Monetary Order
• Randall S. Kroszner on Free Banking: The Scottish Experience as a Model for Emerging Economies
• LibertyHaven's archives of essays on free banking, monetary and banking policy, inflation, and the gold standard
• David Mayes proposes A More Market Based Approach to Maintaining Systemic Stability (abstract and link to pdf file)
• Simon McIlwaine on The Failure of State Money and the Case for Monetary Individualism (pdf file)
• Roderick Moore's manifesto on Money and How to Privatise It (pdf file)
• John F. Nash (1993 Nobel laureate in economics) on Ideal Money (Word doc file)
• Philippe Nataf on Before and after the Euro: strategies for free money
• Tom Palmer's suggested readings on Depressions, Monetary Policy, and Economic Cycles
• Pascal Salin on Free banking and fractional reserves (pdf file)
• Kurt Schuler explains how to prevent currency crises
• Schuler's guide to currency boards and dollarization
• George Selgin on bank self-regulation
• Selgin's essay on Should We Let Banks Create Money?
• Eugene N. White on historical lessons regarding deposit insurance

New payment technologies

• Aleksander Berentsen on Monetary Policy Implications of Digital Money
• F. X. Browne and David Cronin on Payments Technologies, Financial Innovation, and Laissez-faire Banking
• Papers from the Cato Institute's conference on The Future of Money in the Information Age
• Benjamin J. Cohen on the denationalizing implications of electronic money
• Gerald P. Dwyer's thoughts on e-commerce and e-money
• David D. Friedman and Kerry L. Macintosh on 21st-century money
• Per Hortlund's working paper On the Spontaneous Freezing of the Monetary Base
• Randall S. Kroszner on Currency Competition in the Digital Age (pdf file)
• Malte Krueger on Financial Innovation and the New Monetary Economics (pdf file)
• Adam Mikkelsen on Electronic Money and the Market Process
• Leo van Hove's massive bibliography on electronic purses

Monetary and banking history

• Kam Hon Chu's study Is Free Banking More Prone to Bank Failures than Regulated Banking?
• Roy Davies' links to monetary history and politics
• Gerald P. Dwyer, Jr.'s articles on US "free banking" history
• LibertyHaven's archive of essays on economic history (many on monetary history)
• Carl Menger's classic article On the Origins of Money
• Charles W. Munn's Short History of the Scottish Banking System
• Papers by Arthur J. Rolnick and Warren E. Weber on US "free banking" experience (links to pdf or ps files)
• Kurt Schuler briefly summarizes The World History Of Free Banking
• Eugene N. White's publications on banking history

Economists

• Donald Boudreaux's homepage
• Kevin Dowd's publications on free banking
• Stephen French's Moody Loner's Guide to Economics
• Roger Garrison's homepage
• Steven G. Horwitz's homepage
• Daniel Klein's homepage
• Randall S. Kroszner's research page
• Hugh Rockoff's homepage
• George Selgin's homepage
• An interview with Adam Smith (channeled by E. G. West) about banking regulation and other topics
• Lawrence H. White's online articles
• If you were looking for the economist Lawrence J. White (please note the middle initial) you'll find him here

Other sites of interest

• The Library of Economics and Liberty offers the complete texts of dozens of classic books, including
• Ludwig von Mises, The Theory of Money and Credit (chs. 15-19 are especially important for free banking theory)
• Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations (Book II, ch. 2 discusses Scottish free banking)
• William Leggett, Democratick Editorials (Part II contains essays on The Separation of Bank and State)
• Tom Bell's essay on Polycentric Law, drawing parallels between free banking and non-monopolistic legal systems
• Richard Ebeling's Austrian Economics Reading List, including a section on Money, Banking and Monetary Policy
• The Mises Institute's study guide to Austrian School works on money and banking
• Greg Ransom's Friedrich Hayek Scholars' Page
• Kurt Schuler's Monetary economics reading list
• The Society for the Development of Austrian Economics
• Glen Whitman's Selma Hayek versus Friedrich Hayek scorecard