In a recent lecture on her new book, Redressing Historical Injustice: Self-Ownership, Property Rights and Economic Equality, Wanjiru Njoya challenged current calls among some indigenous groups for...
Misty Peñuelas
Ms. Peñuelas earned her Bachelor’s degree in history at the University of Texas at Austin in 1995 and her Master’s degree in Medieval History at the University of Oklahoma in 2002. Currently she is a Doctoral Candidate in the Department of History at the University of Oklahoma, working in the field of American Indian history. Based on the records of the Cherokee National Treasurer, her dissertation, “From Deer Skins to Dollars: Cherokee Money and the Liberal State, 1700-1900,” is a history of Cherokee money, documenting the origins and evolution of the Cherokees’ liberal, fiscal-monetary state in the nineteenth century. Ms. Peñuelas was a Summer Research Fellow at the Mises Institute in 2022 and plans to complete her doctorate in December of 2023.
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Money proper is not artifice. It is a physical "thing" of value, acquired through labor and emerging out of the needs of individuals, who through voluntary exchanges determine its value.
In his 1884 article “ Mind as a Social Factor,” Lester F. Ward attacked the laissez-faire doctrine in an “inversion of values” that would have made Friedrich Nietzsche blush. “But how shall we...
