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Hayek’s Suggestion for Currency Competition: A Central Banker’s View

In: Hayek: Economist and Social Philosopher

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  • Otmar Issing
  • Samuel Brittan

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Friedrich August von Hayek’s work Denationalisation of Money, written in 1976, which called for the abolition of the government’s monopoly of the issue of money and the introduction of comprehensive currency competition, triggered a far-reaching and controversial debate on the role of the government in the monetary system. In the course of this debate, even Milton Friedman — a vehement advocate of capitalism and unfaltering opponent of government intervention in general, and of discretionary, inflationary monetary policy in particular — was forced on to the defensive.

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  • Otmar Issing & Samuel Brittan, 1997. "Hayek’s Suggestion for Currency Competition: A Central Banker’s View," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Stephen F. Frowen (ed.), Hayek: Economist and Social Philosopher, chapter 8, pages 185-194, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-349-25991-5_8
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-25991-5_8
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