Alexander William Salter

Texas Tech University - Rawls College of Business

Assistant Professor of Economics

Lubbock, TX 79409

United States

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American Institute for Economic Research

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1.

The View from Vienna: An Analysis of the Renewed Interest in the Mises-Hayek Theory of the Business Cycle

Review of Austrian Economics 30(2) 2017: 169-192
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 06 Dec 2013 Last Revised: 08 Oct 2017
Nicolas Cachanosky and Alexander William Salter
Metropolitan State University of Denver and Texas Tech University - Rawls College of Business
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State Capacity and Economic Development: Causal Mechanism or Correlative Filter?

Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 03 Dec 2018 Last Revised: 20 Dec 2019
Vincent Geloso and Alexander William Salter
George Mason University - Department of Economics and Texas Tech University - Rawls College of Business
Downloads 537 (73,383)
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State Capacity, Economic Development, Public Goods

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Evolution, Uncertainty, and the Asymptotic Efficiency of Policy

AIER Sound Money Project Working Paper No. 2020-15, Free Market Institute Research Paper No. 3251917
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 11 Oct 2018 Last Revised: 03 May 2022
Brian C. Albrecht, Joshua R. Hendrickson and Alexander William Salter
International Center for Law & Economics (ICLE), University of Mississippi and Texas Tech University - Rawls College of Business
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Real Option, Political Coase Theorem, Evolution, Efficiency, Alchian

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Polycentric Sovereignty: The Medieval Constitution, Governance Quality, and the Wealth of Nations

Social Science Quarterly, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 22 Feb 2016 Last Revised: 01 Aug 2018
Alexander William Salter and Andrew T. Young
Texas Tech University - Rawls College of Business and Texas Tech University - Rawls College of Business
Downloads 422 (97,873)
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Estates system, medieval Europe, political property rights, polycentricity, residual claimancy, sovereignty

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Synthesizing State and Spontaneous Order Theories of Money

Advances in Austrian Economics 18 2014
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 03 Sep 2012 Last Revised: 01 Mar 2015
Alexander William Salter and William J. Luther
Texas Tech University - Rawls College of Business and Florida Atlantic University
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chartalism, Knapp, medium of exchange, Menger, money, search, spontaneous order, state theory of money, unit of account

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Ben Bernanke and Bagehot 's Rules

Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking, Vol. 47, No. 2-3, 2015
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 27 Aug 2013 Last Revised: 01 Mar 2016
Thomas L. Hogan, Linh Le and Alexander William Salter
American Institute for Economic Research, University of New Orleans and Texas Tech University - Rawls College of Business
Downloads 361 (116,904)
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Ben Bernanke, Walter Bagehot, bank bailouts, lender of last resort

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The Optimal Austrian Business Cycle Theory

Advances in Austrian Economics 20 2016: 45-60
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 11 Nov 2014 Last Revised: 07 Aug 2016
Alexander William Salter and William J. Luther
Texas Tech University - Rawls College of Business and Florida Atlantic University
Downloads 338 (125,687)
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Austrian, boom, business cycle, bust, Friedrich A. Hayek, Ludwig von Mises, macroeconomic fluctuation, structure of production, rational expectations

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Money as Meta-Rule: Buchanan's Constitutional Economics as a Foundation for Monetary Stability

GMU Working Paper in Economics No. 16-49, Public Choice 176(3) 2018: 529-555, AIER Sound Money Project Working Paper No. 2018-12
Number of pages: 46 Posted: 08 Nov 2016 Last Revised: 28 Sep 2018
Peter J. Boettke, Peter J. Boettke, Alexander William Salter and Daniel J. Smith
George Mason University - Department of EconomicsMercatus Center at George Mason University, Texas Tech University - Rawls College of Business and Political Economy Research Institute and Department of Economics and Finance at Middle Tennessee State University
Downloads 314 (135,773)
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Central Banking; James M. Buchanan; Monetary Constitution; Monetary Stability; Federal Reserve; Rule

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Money, Liquidity, and the Structure of Production

Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Vol. 73, 2016
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 22 Feb 2015 Last Revised: 15 Mar 2017
Joshua R. Hendrickson and Alexander William Salter
University of Mississippi and Texas Tech University - Rawls College of Business
Downloads 313 (136,219)
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forced saving, monetary policy, optimal stopping times, entry and exit

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Bitcoin and the Bailout

Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 15 Nov 2015 Last Revised: 24 Jan 2017
William J. Luther and Alexander William Salter
Florida Atlantic University and Texas Tech University - Rawls College of Business
Downloads 296 (144,431)
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bitcoin, cryptocurrency, currency competition, medium of exchange, money, payment system

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A Monarchical Perspective on Constitutional Governance: H.S.H. Prince Hans-Adam II of Liechtenstein and the State in the Third Millennium

Journal of Private Enterprise 30(1) 2015: 121-130
Number of pages: 12 Posted: 15 Feb 2014 Last Revised: 01 Mar 2016
Alexander William Salter
Texas Tech University - Rawls College of Business
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Constitutional political economy, democracy, federalism, monarchy, H.S.H. Hans-Adam II, Liechtenstein, oligarchy, self-determination

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Not All NGDP is Created Equal: A Critique of Market Monetarism

Journal of Private Enterprise 29(1) 2013: 41-52
Number of pages: 13 Posted: 14 Dec 2012 Last Revised: 16 Aug 2014
Alexander William Salter
Texas Tech University - Rawls College of Business
Downloads 266 (161,030)
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free banking, Market Monetarism, market process, monetary disequilibrium, monetary institutions, NGDP

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Currency Emergence in Absence of State Influence: The Case of Diablo II

Cosmos + Taxis, Vol. 2, No. 2, 2015
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 15 Dec 2013 Last Revised: 31 Mar 2015
Alexander William Salter and Solomon M. Stein
Texas Tech University - Rawls College of Business and George Mason University
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Chartalist, medium of exchange, Menger, money emergence, online societies, state theory of money

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The Federal Reserve's Response to the COVID-19 Contraction: An Initial Appraisal

Southern Economic Journal, Vol. 87 (4) 2021: 1152-1174, AIER Sound Money Project Working Paper No. 2021-01
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 09 Nov 2020 Last Revised: 27 Jun 2022
Nicolas Cachanosky, Bryan Cutsinger, Thomas L. Hogan, William J. Luther and Alexander William Salter
Metropolitan State University of Denver, Angelo State University - Accounting, Economics and Finance Department, American Institute for Economic Research, Florida Atlantic University and Texas Tech University - Rawls College of Business
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COVID-19, credit allocation, Federal Reserve, lending facilities, monetary policy

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Tullock's Challenge: A Reconsideration of Constitutional Monarchy

Procesos de Mercado 11(2) 2014: 51-81
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 07 Jul 2014 Last Revised: 31 Mar 2015
Alexander William Salter and David J. Hebert
Texas Tech University - Rawls College of Business and Aquinas College
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Constitutional political economy, democracy, efficiency, monarchy, Liechtenstein

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Robust Political Economy and the Lender of Last Resort

Journal of Financial Services Research, Vol. 50, No. 1, 2016
Number of pages: 50 Posted: 06 Apr 2013 Last Revised: 15 Mar 2017
Alexander William Salter
Texas Tech University - Rawls College of Business
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Bagehot, free banking, incentives, information, monetary institutions, New York Fed, private clearinghouses, Richmond Fed, robust political economy

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A Theory of Self-Governance: De Facto Constitutions as Filters

Journal of Public Finance and Public Choice, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 11 Dec 2017 Last Revised: 05 Feb 2019
Alexander William Salter and Justin T Callais
Texas Tech University - Rawls College of Business and Texas Tech University, College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources, Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics, Students
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Democracy, Liberalism, Political Property Rights, Self-Governance

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Would a Free Banking System Stabilize NGDP Growth?

Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 17 Posted: 29 Apr 2015 Last Revised: 01 May 2018
Alexander William Salter and Andrew T. Young
Texas Tech University - Rawls College of Business and Texas Tech University - Rawls College of Business
Downloads 218 (195,253)
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Central banking, free banking, inflation, monetary constitution, nominal income targeting

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Dead Ends and Living Currents: Distributism as a Progressive Research Program

Christian Libertarian Review, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 15 Mar 2017 Last Revised: 08 Aug 2017
Gene Callahan and Alexander William Salter
SUNY Purchase College and Texas Tech University - Rawls College of Business
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Catholic social teaching, distributism, price theory, property rights

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Political Economists or Political Economists? The Role of Political Environments in the Formation of Fed Policy Under Burns, Greenspan, and Bernanke

Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance, 71(1) 2019: 1-13, AIER Sound Money Project Working Paper No. 2018-04
Number of pages: 46 Posted: 24 Jul 2017 Last Revised: 16 May 2019
Alexander William Salter and Daniel J. Smith
Texas Tech University - Rawls College of Business and Political Economy Research Institute and Department of Economics and Finance at Middle Tennessee State University
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Central banking, monetary policy, public choice, political economy

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Book Review: Aquinas and the Market: Toward a Humane Economy by Mary Hirschfeld

Christian Libertarian Review, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 12 Posted: 06 Dec 2018
Alexander William Salter
Texas Tech University - Rawls College of Business
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Aquinas, Christianity, Economics of Religion, Religious Economics, Theology, Thomism

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Preventing Plunder: Military Technology, Capital Accumulation, and Economic Growth

Number of pages: 47 Posted: 28 Aug 2017 Last Revised: 22 Jul 2018
Joshua R. Hendrickson, Alexander William Salter and Brian C. Albrecht
University of Mississippi, Texas Tech University - Rawls College of Business and International Center for Law & Economics (ICLE)
Downloads 194 (217,236)
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national defense, economic growth, military technology

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Political Property Rights and Governance Outcomes: A Theory of the Corporate Polity

Journal of Private Enterprise, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 21 Feb 2015 Last Revised: 12 Dec 2015
Alexander William Salter
Texas Tech University - Rawls College of Business
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Political property rights, predatory governance, private governance, productive governance

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Expectations and NGDP Targeting: Supply-Side Problems with Demand-Side Policy

Journal of Private Enterprise, forthcoming
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 09 Oct 2014 Last Revised: 21 Apr 2018
Alexander William Salter and Thomas L. Hogan
Texas Tech University - Rawls College of Business and American Institute for Economic Research
Downloads 192 (219,212)
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Aggregate Demand Stabilization, Expectations, Monetary Equilibrium, Monetary Policy, NGDP Targeting, Stagflation, Supply Side

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Extended Shareholder Liability as a Means to Constrain Moral Hazard in Insured Banks

Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance, 2017, Volume 63: 153-160, GMU Working Paper in Economics No. 15-45
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 13 Aug 2015 Last Revised: 05 Mar 2017
Alexander William Salter, Vipin P. Veetil and Lawrence H. White
Texas Tech University - Rawls College of Business, Indian Institute of Technology Madras and George Mason University - Department of Economics
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Bagehot Hypothesis, deposit insurance, double liability, moral hazard, triple liability, unlimited liability

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Rights to the Realm: Reconsidering Western Political Development

American Political Science Review 109(4) 2015: 725-734
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 29 Oct 2014 Last Revised: 29 Dec 2015
Alexander William Salter
Texas Tech University - Rawls College of Business
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Congleton, constitutional bargains, generality norm, liberalism, property rights, shareholder state

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Constitutional Catallaxy: Friends and Enemies in an Open-Ended Social Order

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Constitutional Catallaxy: Friends and Enemies in an Open-Ended Social Order

Journal of Public Finance and Public Choice, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 09 May 2017 Last Revised: 22 Jan 2018
Alexander William Salter and Richard E. Wagner
Texas Tech University - Rawls College of Business and George Mason University - Department of Economics
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choice vs. emergence, constitutional control, friend-enemy distinction, open systems, paradox of power, political entrepreneurship

Constitutional Catallaxy: Friends and Enemies in an Open-Ended Social Order

GMU Working Paper in Economics No. 17-18
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 15 May 2017
Alexander William Salter and Richard E. Wagner
Texas Tech University - Rawls College of Business and George Mason University - Department of Economics
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Choice vs. Emergence; Constitutional Control; Friend-Enemy Distinction; Open Systems; Paradox of Power; Political Entrepreneurship

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Medieval Representative Assemblies: Collective Action and Antecedents of Limited Government

Constitutional Political Economy, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 09 Feb 2017 Last Revised: 01 Feb 2018
Alexander William Salter and Andrew T. Young
Texas Tech University - Rawls College of Business and Texas Tech University - Rawls College of Business
Downloads 172 (240,928)
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medieval economic history, comparative economic development, medieval constitution, polycentric governance, political property rights, representative assemblies

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Going Beyond Monetary Constitutions: The Congruence of Money and Finance

Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 29 Oct 2015 Last Revised: 20 Nov 2017
Joshua R. Hendrickson and Alexander William Salter
University of Mississippi and Texas Tech University - Rawls College of Business
Downloads 172 (240,928)
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Commodity standard, depositors, extended liability, financial constitution, macroprudential policy, monetary constitution

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What You Don't Know Can Hurt You: Knowledge Problems in Monetary Policy

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What You Don't Know Can Hurt You: Knowledge Problems in Monetary Policy

Contemporary Economic Policy, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 07 Mar 2016 Last Revised: 17 Jan 2017
Alexander William Salter and Daniel J. Smith
Texas Tech University - Rawls College of Business and Political Economy Research Institute and Department of Economics and Finance at Middle Tennessee State University
Downloads 170 (243,642)
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Central banking, free banking, Hayek, knowledge problem, monetary policy, NGDP targeting

What You Don't Know Can Hurt You: Knowledge Problems in Monetary Policy

Contemporary Economic Policy, Vol. 35, Issue 3, pp. 505-517, 2017
Number of pages: 13 Posted: 30 May 2017
Alexander William Salter and Daniel J. Smith
Texas Tech University - Rawls College of Business and Political Economy Research Institute and Department of Economics and Finance at Middle Tennessee State University
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Space Debris: A Law and Economics Analysis of the Orbital Commons

MERCATUS WORKING PAPER
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 07 Jun 2018
Alexander William Salter
Texas Tech University - Rawls College of Business
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The Other Space Race: Some Law and Economics of Celestial Resource Appropriation

Georgia Journal of International and Comparative Law, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 24 Feb 2018 Last Revised: 23 Mar 2018
Alexander William Salter
Texas Tech University - Rawls College of Business
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Asteroid mining, first possession, space law, space policy

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Political Entrepreneurship, Emergent Dynamics, and Constitutional Politics

Review of Social Economy, Forthcoming, GMU Working Paper in Economics No. 17-09
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 21 Feb 2017 Last Revised: 05 Jan 2018
Alexander William Salter and Richard E. Wagner
Texas Tech University - Rawls College of Business and George Mason University - Department of Economics
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open systems, political entrepreneurship, constitutional control, crooked timber of humanity, paradox of power, emergence

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Can Dollarization Constrain a Populist Leader? The Case of Rafael Correa in Ecuador

AIER Sound Money Project Working Paper No. 2022-05, Free Market Institute Research Paper No. 3988413, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 20 Dec 2021 Last Revised: 13 Jun 2022
Nicolas Cachanosky, Alexander William Salter and Ignacio Savanti
Metropolitan State University of Denver, Texas Tech University - Rawls College of Business and UCEMA Friedman-Hayek Center for the Study of a Free Society
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Ecuador, dollarization, populism

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James Buchanan and Contractarian Anarchy

Journal of Prices & Markets 2(2) 2014: 48-58
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 12 Sep 2013 Last Revised: 16 Aug 2014
Alexander William Salter
Texas Tech University - Rawls College of Business
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anarchy, Buchanan, federalism, individualism, secession, self-governance, social contract, sovereignty

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Is There a Self-Enforcing Monetary Constitution?

Constitutional Political Economy, Vol. 25, No. 3, 2014
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 04 May 2013 Last Revised: 16 Aug 2014
Alexander William Salter
Texas Tech University - Rawls College of Business
Downloads 158 (258,800)
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Central banking, constitutional political economy, free banking, monetary constitution, NGDP targeting, robust political economy

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Polycentric Banking and Macroeconomic Stability

Business and Politics, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 06 Nov 2015 Last Revised: 17 Nov 2016
Alexander William Salter and Vlad Tarko
Texas Tech University - Rawls College of Business and University of Arizona - Department of Political Economy and Moral Science
Downloads 156 (261,507)
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Central banking, clearinghouse, free banking, macroeconomic stability, monetary policy, polycentricity, robust political economy

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Ordering the Cosmos: Private Law and Celestial Property Rights

Journal of Air Law and Commerce 82(2) 2017: 311-332
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 21 Sep 2016 Last Revised: 09 Oct 2017
Alexander William Salter
Texas Tech University - Rawls College of Business
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Law merchant, Outer Space Treaty, private law, sovereignty, SPACE Act, space commerce, space law

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Adaptation and Central Banking

AIER Sound Money Project Working Paper No. 2018-01
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 04 Aug 2017 Last Revised: 22 May 2018
Alexander William Salter and William J. Luther
Texas Tech University - Rawls College of Business and Florida Atlantic University
Downloads 145 (277,242)
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Adaptation, Bailout, Central Bank, Motivation, Seigniorage, Selection, Research

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Governing the Financial System: A Theory of Financial Resilience

Mercatus Working Paper, November 2017
Number of pages: 47 Posted: 08 Dec 2017
Alexander William Salter and Vlad Tarko
Texas Tech University - Rawls College of Business and University of Arizona - Department of Political Economy and Moral Science
Downloads 135 (293,091)
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central banking, Elinor Ostrom, financial crisis, financial regulation, free banking, monocentric, polycentric, resilience

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Endogenous Currency Formation in an Online Environment: The Case of Diablo II

Review of Austrian Economics 29(1) 2016: 53-66
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 08 Dec 2013 Last Revised: 02 Mar 2016
Alexander William Salter and Solomon M. Stein
Texas Tech University - Rawls College of Business and George Mason University
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Exchange frictions, epistemic frictions, Kiyotaki-Wright, medium of exchange, Menger, money emergence, online societies

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Governing the Banking System: An Assessment of Resilience Based on Elinor Ostrom’s Design Principles

Journal of Institutional Economics, November 19, 2018, 1-15 doi:10.1017/S1744137418000401
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 29 Aug 2018 Last Revised: 03 Dec 2018
Alexander William Salter and Vlad Tarko
Texas Tech University - Rawls College of Business and University of Arizona - Department of Political Economy and Moral Science
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Central Banking, Elinor Ostrom, Financial Crisis, Financial Regulation, Free Banking

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Money and the Rule of Law

Review of Austrian Economics, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 06 Jun 2016 Last Revised: 03 Jan 2017
Glenn Furton and Alexander William Salter
Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics and Texas Tech University - Rawls College of Business
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Liberalism, Monetary Institutions, Monetary Policy, Rule of Law

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Constitutional Drift and Political Dysfunction: Underappreciated Maladies of the Political Commons

Independent Review 21(4) 2017: 569-585
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 19 Jun 2015 Last Revised: 15 Mar 2017
Alexander William Salter
Texas Tech University - Rawls College of Business
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Constitutions, federalism, feedback, fiscal imbalance, political commons, polycentricity

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Monetary Equilibrium and Price Stickiness Reconsidered: A Reply to Bagus and Howden

Review of Austrian Economics 25(3) 2012: 263-269
Number of pages: 7 Posted: 29 Jan 2012 Last Revised: 16 Aug 2014
William J. Luther and Alexander William Salter
Florida Atlantic University and Texas Tech University - Rawls College of Business
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Austrian economics, central banking, commodity standard, fiat money, free banking, macroeconomics, money, monetary equilibrium theory, monetary standard, sticky information, sticky prices

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Ideologies, Institutions, and Interests: Why Economic Ideas Don’t Compete on a Level Playing Field

The Independent Review, Forthcoming.
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 25 Apr 2019 Last Revised: 11 Jun 2020
Justin T Callais and Alexander William Salter
Texas Tech University, College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources, Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics, Students and Texas Tech University - Rawls College of Business
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economics profession, state, academics, marketplace of ideas, Keynesian, Progressivism

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A Theory of the Dynamics of Entangled Political Economy with Application to the Federal Reserve

Journal of Public Finance and Public Choice 30(1-3) 2012 [2014]: 77-102
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 13 Aug 2013 Last Revised: 01 Mar 2015
Alexander William Salter
Texas Tech University - Rawls College of Business
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bailout, constitutional political economy, entangled political economy, Federal Reserve, financial crisis, residual claimant

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The Constitution of Economic Expertise: Social Science in the Public Square, Past and Present

Christian Libertarian Review, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 01 Mar 2017 Last Revised: 01 Nov 2018
Alexander William Salter
Texas Tech University - Rawls College of Business
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Academy, bureaucracy, economics profession, managerial state, New England tradition, progressivism, Whig history

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A Theory of Why the Ruthless Revolt

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A Theory of Why the Ruthless Revolt

Economics and Politics, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 13 Oct 2015 Last Revised: 03 Jun 2016
Joshua R. Hendrickson and Alexander William Salter
University of Mississippi and Texas Tech University - Rawls College of Business
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revolution, option games

A Theory of Why the Ruthless Revolt

Economics & Politics, Vol. 28, Issue 3, pp. 295-316, 2016
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 03 Oct 2016
Joshua R. Hendrickson and Alexander William Salter
University of Mississippi and Texas Tech University - Rawls College of Business
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Debt Erosion and the Market Process

Economic Affairs 34(3) 2014: 370-378
Number of pages: 12 Posted: 26 Jul 2013 Last Revised: 01 Mar 2015
Alexander William Salter
Texas Tech University - Rawls College of Business
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debt erosion, constitutional political economy, free banking, monetary constitution, monetary equilibrium theory, market process economics

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Rawlsian Originalism

Jurisprudence, forthcoming
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 09 Aug 2018 Last Revised: 24 Dec 2018
Brian Kogelmann and Alexander William Salter
University of Arizona - Department of Philosophy and Texas Tech University - Rawls College of Business
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Constitution, Judiciary, Living Constitution, Originalism, Public Reason, Rawls

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Sovereignty as Exchange of Political Property Rights

Public Choice 165(1) 2015: 79-96
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 09 Dec 2014 Last Revised: 12 Dec 2015
Alexander William Salter
Texas Tech University - Rawls College of Business
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Anarchy, Catallaxy, Constitutions, Politics as exchange, Polycentricity, Sovereignty

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The Imprudence of Macroprudential Policy

Independent Review 19(1) 2014: 5-18
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 04 Dec 2013 Last Revised: 16 Aug 2014
Alexander William Salter
Texas Tech University - Rawls College of Business
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Austrian business cycle theory, incentive problem, information, knowledge problem, macroprudential, monetary institutions, monetary policy, robust political economy

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Calhoun's Concurrent Majority as a Generality Norm

Constitutional Political Economy 26(3) 2015: 375-390
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 12 Feb 2014 Last Revised: 02 Mar 2016
Alexander William Salter
Texas Tech University - Rawls College of Business
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Calhoun, concurrent majority, constitutional political economy, federalism, generality norm, majoritarianism, social compact, unanimity

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Calculating Bandits: Quasi-Corporate Governance and Institutional Selection in Autocracies

Advances in Austrian Economics 19 2015: 193-213
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 07 Oct 2014 Last Revised: 10 Aug 2015
Alexander William Salter and Abigail Hall
Texas Tech University - Rawls College of Business and Bellarmine University - W. Fielding Rubel School for Business
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Autocracy, Development, Economic Growth, Institutional Selection, Stationary Bandit, Singapore, United Arab Emirates

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Celestial Anarchy

Cato Journal, Vol. 34, No. 3, 2014
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 17 Jan 2014 Last Revised: 01 Mar 2015
Alexander William Salter and Peter T. Leeson
Texas Tech University - Rawls College of Business and George Mason University - Department of Economics
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Anarchy, Law Merchant, Outer Space Treaty, private governance, property rights, self-enforcing exchange, sovereignty, space commerce, space law

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The Fundamental Coase of Development: Property Rights Foundations of the Effective State

Journal of Institutional Economics, forthcoming
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 20 Jun 2019 Last Revised: 12 May 2020
Ennio Emanuele Piano and Alexander William Salter
Middle Tennessee State University and Texas Tech University - Rawls College of Business
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Some Political Economy of Monetary Rules

Independent Review 23(1) 2016: 443-464
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 08 Oct 2015 Last Revised: 02 Dec 2016
Alexander William Salter
Texas Tech University - Rawls College of Business
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Bennett McCallum, central banking, free banking, John Taylor, Milton Friedman, monetary policy, monetary theory, nominal income targeting, rule of law, rules vs. discretion

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Post-Cameralist Governance: Towards a Robust Political Economy of Bureaucracy

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Post-Cameralist Governance: Towards a Robust Political Economy of Bureaucracy

Economic Affairs, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 19 Aug 2015 Last Revised: 29 Jul 2016
Alexander William Salter
Texas Tech University - Rawls College of Business
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Bureaucracy, cameralism, jurisdictional competition, post-cameralism, polycentricity, residual claimancy, robust political economy

Post‐Cameralist Governance: Towards a Robust Political Economy of Bureaucracy

Economic Affairs, Vol. 36, Issue 3, pp. 294-308, 2016
Number of pages: 15 Posted: 25 Oct 2016
Alexander William Salter
Texas Tech University - Rawls College of Business
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bureaucracy, cameralism, jurisdictional competition, polycentricity, post‐cameralism, residual claimancy, robust political economy

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Sovereign Entrepreneurship

Journal of Entrepreneurship and Public Policy, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 24 May 2018 Last Revised: 07 Oct 2018
Alexander William Salter
Texas Tech University - Rawls College of Business
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entrepreneurship, political entrepreneurship, property rights, residual claimancy, sovereign, theory of the firm

61.

Aggregates and Methodological Individualism: A Relational Approach

New Perspectives on Political Economy 9(1) 2013: 5-28
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 07 Sep 2012 Last Revised: 16 Aug 2014
Alexander William Salter
Texas Tech University - Rawls College of Business
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methodological individualism, aggregation, subjectivism, belief, meaning, Austrian economics

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Private Prerogative, Public Purpose: Political Entrepreneurship and Management in Frederick the Great's Anti-Machiavel

Journal of Private Enterprise, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 21 Mar 2018 Last Revised: 20 Oct 2019
Alexander William Salter
Texas Tech University - Rawls College of Business
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Cameralism, enlightened absolutism, entrepreneurship, Frederick the Great, political entrepreneurship, public administration

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Christian Anarchism: Communitarian or Capitalist?

Libertarian Papers. 4 (1): 151-162, 2012
Number of pages: 15 Posted: 17 Apr 2012
Alexander William Salter
Texas Tech University - Rawls College of Business
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Christianity, capitalism, socialism, pacifism, Sermon on the Mount

64.

Playing at Markets: A New Austrian Perspective on Macroeconomic Policy

Review of Austrian Economics, Vol. 30, No. 1, 2017
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 09 Jun 2015 Last Revised: 15 Mar 2017
Alexander William Salter
Texas Tech University - Rawls College of Business
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Catallaxy, emergence, institutions, Menger, New Austrian, praxeology

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A Theory of Self-Enforcing Monetary Constitutions With Reference to the Suffolk System, 1825–1858

AIER Sound Money Project Working Paper No. 2018-14, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 16 May 2018 Last Revised: 21 Oct 2018
Alexander William Salter and Andrew T. Young
Texas Tech University - Rawls College of Business and Texas Tech University - Rawls College of Business
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Free Banking, Monetary Constitution, Political Property Rights, Polycentricity, Sovereignty, Suffolk System

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Institutional Resilience in Banking Systems

LIBERTAS: SEGUNDA ÉPOCA, Forthcoming, AIER Sound Money Project Working Paper No. 2019-02
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 02 Dec 2018 Last Revised: 18 Apr 2019
Alexander William Salter
Texas Tech University - Rawls College of Business
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Banking, Finance, Financial Crisis, Free Banking, Macroprudential, Polycentricity

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Emergent Politics and Constitutional Drift: The Fragility of Procedural Liberalism

Journal of Entrepreneurship and Public Policy, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 26 Sep 2016 Last Revised: 04 Sep 2017
Alexander William Salter and Glenn Furton
Texas Tech University - Rawls College of Business and Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics
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Constitutional bargain, elite theory, formal constitution, informal constitution, politics as exchange, procedural liberalism

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Options to the Realm: A Cost Neutral Proposal to Improve Political Incentives

Contemporary Economic Policy, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 14 Jul 2017 Last Revised: 06 Oct 2019
Joshua R. Hendrickson and Alexander William Salter
University of Mississippi and Texas Tech University - Rawls College of Business
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political property rights, public choice, pensions, option pricing

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Doing Liberal Political Economy: James M. Buchanan as Exemplar

James M. Buchanan: A Theorist of Political Economy and Social Philosophy, ed. Richard E. Wagner, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 29 Apr 2018
Glenn Furton and Alexander William Salter
Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics and Texas Tech University - Rawls College of Business
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Constitutional political economy, James M. Buchanan, liberalism, pluralism, public choice, rationalism

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Constitutionalism, Liberalism, and Political Entrepreneurship

Advances in Austrian Economics, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 23 Apr 2019 Last Revised: 13 Apr 2020
Alexander William Salter
Texas Tech University - Rawls College of Business
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Contractarianism, Constitution, Entrepreneurship, James Buchanan, Market Process Economics, Political Entrepreneurship

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Settling the Final Frontier: The ORBIS Lease and the Possibilities of Proprietary Communities in Space

Journal of Air Law and Commerce, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 37 Posted: 25 Feb 2019 Last Revised: 07 Mar 2019
Alexander William Salter
Texas Tech University - Rawls College of Business
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Outer Space Treaty, Proprietary Communities, Space Law, Space Policy, Space Colonization

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An Introduction to Monetary Policy Rules

MERCATUS WORKING PAPER
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 07 Jun 2018
Alexander William Salter
Texas Tech University - Rawls College of Business
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The Personal and the Political: Implications of Constitutional Entrepreneurship

NYU Journal of Law and Liberty 10(2) 2017: 587-607
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 22 Dec 2015 Last Revised: 15 Mar 2017
Alexander William Salter
Texas Tech University - Rawls College of Business
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Constitutional entrepreneurship, rational choice, robust political economy, virtue ethics

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Private Governance and the Pricing of Political Enterprises

Journal of Business Valuation and Economic Loss Analysis, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 10 Aug 2016 Last Revised: 26 Nov 2016
Glenn Furton and Alexander William Salter
Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics and Texas Tech University - Rawls College of Business
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Austrian economics, Dubai, market process, political pricing, private governance, Singapore

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Political Property Rights and Entangled Political Economy

Emergence, Entanglement, and Political Economy, eds. David Hebert and Diana Thomas. Springer, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 01 Nov 2018 Last Revised: 14 Apr 2020
Alexander William Salter
Texas Tech University - Rawls College of Business
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constitutional political economy, entangled political economy, political property rights, public choice

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Malignant Monetary Monocentricity

Independent Review, Forthcoming, AIER Sound Money Project Working Paper No. 2020-04
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 08 Feb 2020
Alexander William Salter
Texas Tech University - Rawls College of Business
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central banking, democracy, monetary policy, polycentricity, self-governance

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Strategic Offsetting Behavior in the NBA: An Analysis of the Effects of the Mikan Rule

Journal of Sports Economics 18(2) 2017: 126-139
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 13 Dec 2015 Last Revised: 15 Mar 2017
Alexander William Salter
Texas Tech University - Rawls College of Business
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Basketball, economics of sports, Mikan rule, strategic offsetting behavior

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Monepiscopacy: A Rational Choice Account

Number of pages: 33 Posted: 02 Aug 2022
Wilson Whitener and Alexander William Salter
Texas Tech University - Free Market Institute and Texas Tech University - Rawls College of Business
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monepiscopacy, Christian church, collective action, hierarchy

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The Super-Alertness of Central Banks

Review of Austrian Economics, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 15 Feb 2019
Nicolas Cachanosky and Alexander William Salter
Metropolitan State University of Denver and Texas Tech University - Rawls College of Business
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Free Banking, Central Banking, Alertness, Super-Alertness, Monetary Equilibrium

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Monetary Rules: Is a Constrained Central Bank as Good as Gold?

"Monetary Rules: Is a Constrained Central Bank as Good as Gold?" In William J. Luther and Peter C. Earles (eds.), The Gold Standard: Retrospect and Prospect (Great Barrington: American Institute for Economic Research), ch. 8, AIER Sound Money Project Working Paper No. 2021-11
Posted: 07 Sep 2021
Alexander William Salter
Texas Tech University - Rawls College of Business

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central bank, commodity money, fiat money, gold standard, monetary policy, monetary rule, rules vs. discretion