Episode 295: Must Government Control Money?

Words & Numbers

English - October 05, 2022 14:30 - 37 minutes - 27.3 MB - ★★★★★ - 329 ratings
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Next Episode: Episode 296: Think Like an Economist

People - including some economists - are so used to governments establishing currencies that we are unaware that there are alternatives. Money is simply a tool that reduces the frictional costs of trading goods and services and of saving. Markets can evolve money in the same way that they evolve all manner of other solutions to even more complex problems. Prof. Lawrence H. White joins us this week to talk about alternatives to government-created currencies.

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