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(Ebook) The Experience of Free Banking (2nd Edition) by Kevin Dowd ISBN 9780255368308, 0255368305

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Authors:Kevin Dowd
Pages:414 pages.
Year:2023
Editon:2
Publisher:Institute of Economic Affairs
Language:english
File Size:4.46 MB
Format:pdf
ISBNS:9780255368308, 0255368305
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(Ebook) The Experience of Free Banking (2nd Edition) by Kevin Dowd ISBN 9780255368308, 0255368305

The Experience of Free Banking outlines a monetary system where private banks issue competing banknotes, usually anchored to a commodity like gold or silver, replacing the central bank’s role. This approach empowers the public to choose or discard a bank’s currency, promoting a competitive and stable banking environment.“The historical record shows that free banking is not prone to inflation, does not produce banking instability and does not produce a banking monopoly,” says book editor Kevin Dowd, Professor of Finance and Economics at Durham University Business School. “These are big pluses. Plus if it worked in the past, then there is every reason to think it would work again in the future.”The book comes as Argentina’s new President Javier Milei has pledged to abolish the country’s central bank following triple-digit inflation and decades of monetary mismanagement.Between 1716 and 1845, Scottish banks issued competing banknotes secured to fixed quantities of precious metals like gold or silver with few government restrictions on the sector. Scotland’s free banking period delivered stability, low inflation, and economic growth.Adam Smith, in The Wealth of Nations, highlighted the significant role played by Scottish banking in the country’s economic development. Scotland’s per capita income increased from half of England’s in 1750 to nearly equal by 1845.Scottish banks over this period failed at half the rate of England’s, demonstrating the system’s stability. It also delivered innovations such as extending bank branches, interest payments on deposits and an early form of overdraft.Scotland’s successful period under free banking contrasts with the record of the Bank of England, which has played a central role in multiple economic crises, episodes of financial instability and inflation. Economist Kurt Schuler, a chapter author, writes “that London was the storm centre of so many eighteenth- and nineteenth-century panics suggests that the Bank of…
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