My Prize-Winning Essay on US monetary history

[Economist]

Shameless self promotion alert!

This article summarizes the main content of my Monetary Policy class (Econ. 441). I submitted it for the "Sound Money Essay Contest" sponsored by the Atlas Economic Research Foundation (you know, one of those evil free-market think tanks!) and am pleased to announced it was a $1,000-winning finalist!

Here's my essay, "Debt, Debasement, and Inflation: The Political Economy of Money in US History":

http://www.soundmoneyproject.org/wp-con ... 2011_1.pdf

Here's the other winning entries:

http://www.soundmoneyproject.org/?p=4118