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Inherent Instability in Banking: The Free Banking Experience

Working Paper 275 | Published May 1, 1985

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Arthur J. Rolnick Senior Vice President and Director of Research, 1985-2010
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Warren E. Weber Retired Economist
Inherent Instability in Banking: The Free Banking Experience


Published in: _Cato Journal_ (Vol. 5, No. 3, Winter 1986, pp. 877-890).

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