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Still unanswered quibbles with fractional reserve free banking

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  • David Howden

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Anthony Evans and Steven Horwitz readily admit that their own understanding of monetary theory is imperfect, and do not even “attempt a rebuttal of [our] claims.” George Selgin accepts that some of the arguments we put forward in Bagus and Howden (2010) make for “interesting theory”. He fails to rebuff our claim that precautionary reserves are unable to constrain credit creation in a fractional reserve free banking system. While calling for us to provide historical evidence to validate the quibbles we put forward, Selgin himself overstates the evidence. He also claims that we have distorted what he has written, and that we use incorrect monetary theory. These allegations are false.
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  • Philipp Bagus & David Howden, 2012. "Still unanswered quibbles with fractional reserve free banking," The Review of Austrian Economics, Springer;Society for the Development of Austrian Economics, vol. 25(2), pages 159-171, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:kap:revaec:v:25:y:2012:i:2:p:159-171
    DOI: 10.1007/s11138-011-0163-3
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    Business cycles; Central banking; Free banking; Monetary equilibrium; B53; E32; E42; E51; G21;
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    • B0 - Schools of Economic Thought and Methodology - - General
    • G0 - Financial Economics - - General

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