One of the most groundbreaking ideas of Friedrich von Hayek and the Austrian School of Economics is free banking. By this, they mean a system in which money would be privately offered by certain institutions and different currencies would compete for the favour of the consumer. The Austrians believe that a free banking system would […]
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Farewell to an Apostle of Liberty
Recently and unexpectedly, Juan Carlos Cachanosky (1953–2015) left this world. I have always thought that he was, by far, the best and brightest Austrian economist of the Spanish speaking world. And above all, he was an apostle of Liberty. After graduating in Economics at the Catholic University of Argentina, Juan Carlos went to the United […]