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120:. Hayek suggests that institutions may find through experimentation that an extensive basket of commodities forms the ideal monetary base. Institutions would issue and regulate their currency primarily through loan-making, and secondarily through currency buying and selling activities. It is postulated that the financial press would report daily information on whether institutions are managing their currencies within a previously-defined tolerance. Hayek's effort has been cited by economists 199: 213: 156:
In a 1977 review of the book, economist David H. Howard also noted that Hayek neglected to address the extent to which existing monetary institutions evolved to meet real economic needs. Furthermore, Howard states, Hayek's regime of competitive moneys may result in the establishment of a new monopoly
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Hayek advocates a system of private currency in which financial institutions create currencies that compete for acceptance. Stability in value is presumed to be the decisive factor for acceptance. Hayek makes the assumption that competition will favor currencies with the greatest stability in value
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evolution that Hayek said has created better economic institutions than could be created by central planning, Friedman claimed Hayek was then proposing to replace the monetary system thus created with a deliberate construct of his own design. Moreover, Friedman claimed, there is nothing in the
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since a devalued currency hurts creditors, and an upward-revalued currency hurts debtors. Hence users would choose the monies which they expected to offer a mutually acceptable intersection between
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similar to the existing system. According to Howard, Hayek did not consider the real costs and other inefficiencies of a system of competing monies that might lead to such an outcome.
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According to Hayek, instead of a national government issuing a specific currency, use of which is imposed on all members of its economy by force in the form of
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laws, private businesses should be allowed to issue their own forms of money, deciding how to do so on their own.
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was critical of Hayek's writings of the 1970s on monetary reform. Noting Hayek's vigorous defense of
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was critical of Hayek's assumption that the most stable currencies would win market acceptance.
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to prevent voluntary bilateral exchange via any medium freely accepted by two parties.
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The Denationalization of Money

Friedrich Hayek
Institute of Economic Affairs
Friedrich Hayek
private moneys
legal tender
depreciation and appreciation
George Selgin
Richard Timberlake
Lawrence White
Milton Friedman
invisible hand
developed economies
Austrian School
Lawrence H. White
European Central Bank
bitcoin
Literature portal
icon
Economics portal
The Road to Serfdom
Bernard von NotHaus
Counterfeit money
Digital currency
Complementary currency
Denationalisation of Money: An Analysis of the Theory and Practice of Concurrent Currencies
Institute of Economic Affairs
Denationalisation of Money - The Argument Refined: An Analysis of the Theory and Practice of Concurrent Currencies
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