TY - BOOK AU - Selgin,George A. TI - Money free and unfree SN - 9781944424299 (hardback : alk. paper) AV - HG 501 S465m 2017 U1 - 332.4/973 23 PY - 2017/// CY - Washington, D.C. PB - Cato Institute, Center for monetary and financial alternatives KW - Money KW - United States KW - History KW - Dinero KW - Estados Unidos KW - Historia KW - Monetary policy KW - Política monetaria KW - Federal Reserve Banks KW - Banks and banking KW - Bancos y Actividades Monetaria N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Regulatory Sources of Financial Instability -- Central Banks as Sources of Financial Instability -- Legal Restrictions, Financial Weakening, and the Lender of Last Resort -- Before the Fed -- The Suppression Of State Banknotes: A Reconsideration -- Monetary Reform and the Redemption of National Bank Notes, 1863-1913 -- New York's Bank: The National Monetary Commission and the Founding of the Fed." -- The Federal Reserve Era -- The Rise and Fall of the Gold Standard in the United States -- Has the Fed Been a Failure? -- Operation Twist-The-Truth: How the Federal Reserve Misrepresents its History and Performance -- Liberty Street: Bagehotian Prescriptions for a 21st Century Money Market N2 - A radical reinterpretation of the sources of U.S. financial instability ER -