Austrian School Arguments on the Free-Market Origin of Money

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Austrian School Arguments on the Free-Market Origin of Money


AUGUST 25, 2008 
Austrian Economics offers an elegant, logical, and thoroughly causal explanation of how money came to be, again demonstrating the power of the free market to spontaneously organize human activity in meaningful and universally beneficial ways.




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