Free banking, generically speaking, denotes a monetary system without a central bank, under which the issuing of currency is left to private banks. This book ex

This 2005 treatment compares the central banks of Britain and the United States.

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A full account of the rise and fall of British banking stability which sheds new light on why banking systems crash.