Free Banking in Britain

by Lawrence H. White

Book Overview

First published in the 1984, this classic title was republished in 1996 but has been out-of-print for a number of years. Recently reprinted, the book is available to buy and as a free PDF download (13 MB). Free banking, generically speaking, denotes a monetary system without a central bank, under which the issuing of currency is left to private banks. This book explores how this could work in practice by examining how this has worked historically,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0255363753
• ISBN13: 9780255363754
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: Institute of Economic Affairs
• Length: 176 Pages
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 5.5"