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<section class="group-date-author" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="date" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #00426b; font-weight: 600; text-transform: uppercase;">AUGUST 25, 2008 </span><span class="author" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://mises.org/profile/gennady-stolyarov-ii" rel="author" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #00426b; text-decoration: none;">Gennady Stolyarov II</a></span></span></section>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.</div>
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Monetary TheoryMoney and Banking Austrian School Arguments on the Free-Market Origin of Money AUGUST 25, 2008 Gennady Stolyarov IIAustrian 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. Download audio file READ MORE






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