We take money and banking and finance for granted -- but the way they exist in the world is not the only way they could exist. Lawrence H White joins Amit Varma in episode 397 of The Seen and the Unseen to discuss ideas, ideologies, money, crypto and the field he pioneered, free banking.

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Also check out:
1. Lawrence H White on Twitter, Wikipedia, Cato, GMU, Amazon and Google Scholar.
2. Free Banking in Britain – Theory, Experience and Debate 1800-1845 -- Lawrence H White.
3. The Clash of Economic Ideas -- Lawrence H White.
4. Better Money: Gold, Fiat, or Bitcoin? -- Lawrence H White.
5. The Incredible Insights of Timur Kuran — Episode 349 of The Seen and the Unseen.
6. The Long Divergence — Timur Kuran.
7. The Problem With Digital Public Goods -- Episode 56 of Everything is Everything.
8. Seeing Like a State — James C Scott.
9. Javier Milei's speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos.
10. For a New Liberty -- Murray Rothbard.
11. Laissez Faire Books.
12. Capitalism and Freedom -- Milton Friedman.
13. Power and Market -- Murray Rothbard.
14. Economics in One Lesson — Henry Hazlitt.
15. Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal -- Ayn Rand.
16. Man, Economy and State -- Murray Rothbard.
17. Gold and Economic Freedom -- Alan Greenspan.
18. The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution -- Bernard Bailyn.
19. Is Nonprice Competition in Currency Inefficient? -- Lawrence H White & Donald J Boudreaux.
20. Demonetisation and welfare -- Shruti Rajagopalan and Lawrence H White.
21. Narendra Modi takes a Great Leap Backwards — Amit Varma.
22. Anarchy, State and Utopia -- Robert Nozick.
23. Civilization III.
24. The Fatal Conceit — Friedrich Hayek.
25. The Private Mint In Economics: Evidence from American Gold Rushes -- Lawrence H White.
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