title: What Has Government Done to Our Money?
author:  Murray N. Rothbard 
description: Murray N. Rothbard, the author of 25 books and thousands of articles, was a historian, philosopher, and dean of the Austrian School of economics. The S.J. Hall Distinguished Professor of Economics at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, he was also Academic Vice President of the Ludwig von Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama.
zlib_text: What Has Government Done
  to Our Money?
  
  What Has Government Done 
  to Our Money?
  Murray N. Rothbard
  LvMI
  MISES INSTITUTE
  
  Copyright © 1991, 2005, 2008 Ludwig von Mises Institute
  Copyright © 1963, 1985, 1990 by Murray N. Rothbard
  Copyright © 2005 Ludwig von Mises Institute, ﬁ fth edition
  Copyright © 2010 Ludwig von Mises Institute and published 
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  http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
  Published by Ludwig von Mises Institute, 518 West Magnolia Avenue, 
  Auburn, Alabama 36832
  Mises.org
  ISBN: 978-1-61016-142-8
  
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  Contents
   I. Introduction  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
   II. Money in a Free Society  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
   
  1. Th e Value of Exchange. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
   
  2. Barter. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
   
  3. Indirect Exchange  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
   
  4. Beneﬁ ts of Money  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .