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I’ve been reading the Westrups’ The New Philosophy of Money (1895), and have been pleasantly surprised. I had read his Citizens’ Money (1891) and his contributions to Liberty several years ago and had, perhaps unfairly, […]

I’m in the process of pulling together the “second generation” mutual bank writings of Alfred B. Westrup and Herman Kuehn. Here’s a tidbit from Liberty [Sept. 1893 (9: 46), p. 1.] . “For always in […]

Alexander Campbell is the figure most associated with Kelloggism, the adoption of portions of Edward Kellogg’s currency and banking theory by elements in the greenback and labor movements. In the course of my recent w0rk […]

The more we dig, the more land-based currencies schemes we seem to dig up. Thomas Mendenhall was the author of two pamphlets proposing currencies “bottomed” (as he put it) in land value. These works influenced […]

The Special Collections Library at University of Michigan has been digitizing pamphlets from the Labadie Collection for a web archive. There are currently 226 pamphlets online, and it’s a very nice selection of things, including […]

The most recent additions to the archive are Herman Kuehn’s The Problem of Worry (1901), a very interesting 20th century follow-up to William B. Greene’s mutual banking works, and an 1898 English translation of Jean-Marie […]

The Index, the free religionist paper, continues to be a source of interesting material by individualist anarchists and their associates. The 1875 volume contains bits and pieces of interest, including some additional “cost the limit […]

Sometimes it really seems there is a website for everything. The Société des Études Colinsiennes, dedicated to the work and legacy of Jean-Guillaume-César-Alexandre-Hippolyte de COLINS de Ham, the originator of the doctrine of “rational socialism” […]

The Center for Research Libraries at the University of Chicago has a fine online collection of Pamphlets and Periodicals of the French Revolution of 1848. You’ll find large scans of lots of fascinating ephemera from […]

Anyone interested in libertarian electoral politics, particularly those frustrated with the current direction of the Libertarian Party, should check out The Boston Tea Party. Thomas L. Knapp describes the new party’s raison d’etre thus: “The […]