The troubling suppression of competition from alternative monies: The cases of the liberty dollar and E-gold

Cato Journal

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 281-301

  White, Lawrence H ^a  

^a GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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