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Subtitle: Rethinking Government Fiat Money,
CATO Institute, Wash. D.C., 2017, 303 pgs., index, references, notes, paperback
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Reviewer comments: This is a compendium of 18
essays by various authors all on the general theme that the current policy and
method for creating U.S. money supply is faullty. The authors present various
ideas about what is wrong and what should be done to correct it.
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Forward
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Preface
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Chapter 1- Introduction
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Chapter 2 - Revisiting Three Intellectual
Pillars of Monetary Policy
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Chapter 3 - Understanding the Interventionist
Impulse of the Modern Central Bank
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Chapter 4 - The Fed's Fatal Conceit
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Chapter 5 - Alternatives to the Fed?
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Chapter 6 -From Constitutional to Fiat Money
The U.S. Experience
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Chapter 7 -Reductionist Reflections on the
Monetary Constitution
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Chapter 8 - The Implementation and
Maintenance of a Monetary Constitution
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Chapter 9 - Commitment, Rules, and Discretion
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Chapter 10 - Real and Pseudo Monetary Policy
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Chapter 11 -Legislating a Rule for Monetary
Policy
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Chapter 12 -Nominal GDP Targeting: A Simple
Rule to Improve Fed Performance
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Chapter 13 - Toward Forecast-Free Monetary
Institutions
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Chapter 14 - Gold and Silver as Constitutionl
Alternative Currencies
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Chapter 15 - Making the Transition to a New
Gold Standard
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Chapter 16 -Currency Competition versus
Governmental Money Monopolies
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Chapter 17 - The Market for Cryptocurrencies
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Chapter 18 - Monetary Freedom and Monetary
Stability
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