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Rothbard's Case for a Full Gold Backing, Free This Month
Murray Rothbard's sharpest case for 100% gold-backed money, free through August 31. No fractional reserves, no government control — just gold and property rights.
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The Mises Institute is giving away a free copy of Murray Rothbard's The Case for a 100 Percent Gold Dollar through August 31, part of its Year of Rothbard series.
The book is one of Rothbard's sharpest arguments for sound money. He insists money should rest on a market commodity – gold – free of political control. The core claim is that demand deposits and banknotes must be backed 100 percent by physical gold, with no fractional reserve banking at all. Fractional reserves, Rothbard writes, are essentially fraudulent: they create competing claims to the same property, a violation of property rights.