. . .. Toward a Free Market Monetary System* by F. A. Hayek Nobel Laureate in Economics, University of Freiburg When a little over two years ago, at the second Lausanne Conference of this group, I threw out, almost as a sort of bitter joke, that there was no hope of ever again having decent money, unless we took from government the monopoly of issuing money and handed it over to private industry, I took it only half seriously. But the suggestion proved extraordinarily fertile....
