Gold Standard

George Selgin and Lawrence White have sought to tie their modern free banking school to the views of Ludwig von Mises. Whatever the validity of their own views on the gold standard

Volume 22, Number 1 (Spring 2002)

Hans F.

I don’t think the world has ever been in a more dangerous economic situation than it is today.

Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on 25 July 2014.

In this audio interview, Ron Paul touches on recent developments affecting the value of the dollar, the potential for currency collapse, gold, war,

Mark Thornton explains how silver money keeps inflation in check.

Money is a measure of value as the ruler is a measure of length. Changing the length of a ruler, or constantly manipulating the money supply, can only create chaos.The ECB doesn’t realize that constantly changing the measuring stick makes entrepreneurial decisions much more difficult?

Recorded at Mises University 2013.

One of Mises’s followers was Jacque Rueff, the popular economic advisor to French President Charles de Gaulle.