Part II of Benjamin Tucker’s Instead of a Book (on Money and Interest) now available in full posted by Rad Geek 19 Sep 2007 11:29 am
Part II of Benjamin Tucker’s Instead of a Book, by a Man Too Busy to Write One, on Money and Interest, is now available in full in the Fair Use Repository’s online edition. This adds a number of newly transcribed essays:
Here is Benjamin Tucker’s second exchange with Lucien Penny of the Winsted Press, on the money monopoly and government fiat currency:
An exchange concerning mutual banking advocate Alfred B. Westrup’s claims that mutual money need not serve as a standard of value.
A discussion on the likely effects of a dramatic increase in the gold supply due to new technology:
A positive but critical review of Hugo Bilgram’s book Involuntary Idleness, and an ensuing exchange over Bilgram’s proposals for government-run mutual banking:
A discussion of free banking with Joshua K. Ingalls:
A discussion with J. M. M’Gregor of the Detroit Labor Leaf on the priority of free banking over other reforms:
And other essays:
- Ten Questions Briefly Answered.
- An Indispensable Accident.
- Leland Stanford’s Land Bank.
- Mutualism in the Service of Capital.
- Edward Atkinson’s Evolution.
- A Greenbacker in a Corner.
- Free Money and the Cost Principle
- Proudhon’s Bank.
- Why Wages Should Absorb Profits.
- A Great Idea Perverted.
- On Picket Duty.
September 19th, 2007 at 11:40 am
[…] A couple weeks ago I mentioned that I was working on an online transcription of Benjamin Tucker’s [Instead of a Book][IOB], and had completed the introductory essays and Part I: The Individual, Society, and the State. I’m pleased to announce that Part II: Money and Interest — containing Tucker’s defense of free competition and radical laissez-faire in banking, his proposals for mutual banking, and several exchanges with Greenbackers, gold-bugs, defenders of interest, et cetera — is now also available in full online. For summaries of some of the essays, see Fair Use Blog 2007-09-07, 2007-09-15, and 2007-09-19. […]