Paper Idea in Austrian Monetary Economics

July 8, 2009 3:00 PM by Art Carden (Archive)

I'm at the American Institute for Economic Research for the next few weeks before heading to Auburn for Mises University. While I'm here, I'm working on a paper about Southern economic history for the Oxford Handbook of Southern Politics. As part of my research, I'm reading J.C. Schwab's The Confederate States of America, which is available at a price of $0 on Google Books. One passage mentions currency issue by private firms, particularly railroads in Mississippi. Students interested in Austrian economics and monetary economics who are looking for paper topics might want to look into this. Marc Weidenmier has done a lot of work on Confederate monetary history; here's his website. Here's Schwab. Here's soon-to-be-new-GMU economics professor Lawrence H. White--who is teaching the monetary course at AIER this summer--speaking at my institution on how monetary systems can regulate themselves.