Lysander Spooner, the great 19th-century individualist anarchist, evidently wrote on banking and currency competition, but those works had been lost until now. Phil Magness, through some clever detective work, tracked them down and they’re now available, published via the American Institute for Economic Research! (They also shed light on whether Spooner sympathized with socialism or left-libertarianism.)
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AIER’s website:
Two Treatises on Competitive Currency and Banking, by Lysander Spooner with Introduction Phillip W. Magness
Amazon:
Two Treatises on Competitive Currency and Banking, by Lysander Spooner with Introduction Phillip W. Magness
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