What Has Government Done to Our Money? |
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User Review - carterchristian1 - LibraryThingSuch a timely book, even the 1990 edition now that China is questioning the position of the US dollar in the world economy and as our financial world seems doomed. An especially useful section is the ... Read full review
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User Review - ServusLibri - LibraryThingRothbard’s masterwork is an extended essay and tour de force; a detailed description of the origins of money, its nature, and government’s sins against it. He originally published it in 1963, and then ... Read full review
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Bibliographic information
| Title | What Has Government Done to Our Money? Volume 3, Issue 1 of Studies in human action |
| Author | Murray Newton Rothbard |
| Publisher | Pine Tree Press, 1963 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | Mar 23, 2006 |
| Length | 49 pages |
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