A History Of Money And Banking In The United States (book)
A History of Money and Banking in the United States is a book by economist Murray Rothbard.
From the introduction by Joseph Salerno:
In this volume, Murray Rothbard has provided a comprehensive history of money and banking in the United States, from colonial times to World War II, the first to explicitly use the interpretive framework of the Austrian monetary theory…Although its five parts were written separately, this volume presents a relatively integrated narrative, with very little overlap, that sweeps across three hundred years of U.S. monetary history.Read more about A History Of Money And Banking In The United States (book): Release History
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