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The Big List Of Sound Money Resources

Posted on June 3, 2025June 4, 2025 by Brian Colwell

The sound money resources below are in chronological order. Enjoy!

  • 1871 – Principles Of Economics (Carl Menger) – https://nakamotoinstitute.org/static/docs/principles-of-economics.pdf 
  • 1892 – On The Origins Of Money (Carl Menger) – https://nakamotoinstitute.org/static/docs/on-the-origins-of-money.pdf 
  • 1911 – The Purchasing Power of Money, its Determination and Relation to Credit, Interest and Crises ( Irving Fisher) – https://eet.pixel-online.org/files/etranslation/original/Fisher%20The%20Purchasing%20Power%20of%20Money.pdf
  • 1949 – Human Action: A Treatise On Economics (Ludwig von Mises) – https://cdn.mises.org/Human%20Action_3.pdf 
  • 1953 – The Theory of Money & Credit (Ludwig von Mises) – https://nakamotoinstitute.org/static/docs/theory-money-credit.pdf 
  • 1962 – Man, Economy & State, with Power & Market (Murray N. Rothbard) – https://nakamotoinstitute.org/static/docs/man-economy-and-state-power-and-market.pdf 
  • 1963 – What Has Government Done To Our Money? (Murray N. Rothbard) – https://nakamotoinstitute.org/static/docs/what-has-government-done-to-our-money.pdf 
  • 1966 – Essays in positive economics (Milton Friedman) – https://sciencepolicy.colorado.edu/students/envs_5120/friedman_1966.pdf 
  • 1967 – Gold and economic freedom (Alan Greenspan) – https://www.math.snu.ac.kr/~hichoi/finmath/AlanGreenspan-GoldEconomicFreedom.pdf 
  • 1971 – WTF Happened in 1971? – https://wtfhappenedin1971.com/ 
  • 1976 – Denationalisation of Money: The Argument Refined (Friedrich A. Hayek) – https://nakamotoinstitute.org/static/docs/denationalisation.pdf
  • 1978 – The Austrian Theory of the trade Cycle (Ebeling) – https://cdn.mises.org/The%20Austrian%20Theory%20of%20the%20Trade%20Cycle%20and%20Other%20Essays_3.pdf
  • 1983 – The Mystery Of Banking (Murray N. Rothbard) – https://nakamotoinstitute.org/static/docs/the-mystery-of-banking.pdf 
  • 1987 – Has Government Any Role in Money? (Milton Friedman, Anna J. Schwartz) – https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/6900301.pdf 
  • 1988 – The Theory of Free Banking: Money Supply under Competitive Note Issue (George A. Selgin) – https://oll.libertyfund.org/pages/selgin-on-free-banking 
  • 1989 – The Machinery of Freedom : A Guide To Radical Capitalism (David D. Friedman) – https://nakamotoinstitute.org/static/docs/the-machinery-of-freedom.pdf 
  • 1990 – Banking, Nation States & International Politics: A Sociological Reconstruction (Hans-Hermann Hoppe) – https://nakamotoinstitute.org/banking-nation-states-and-international-politics/ 
  • 1994 – How Is Fiat Money Possible? (Hans-Hermann Hoppe) – https://nakamotoinstitute.org/how-is-fiat-money-possible/ 
  • 1998 – A critical note on fractional reserve free banking (Jesús Huerta de Soto) – https://cdn.mises.org/qjae1_4_2.pdf 
  • 1998 – Money, Bank Credit & Economic Cycles (Jesús Huerta de Soto) – https://nakamotoinstitute.org/static/docs/economic-cycles.pdf 
  • 2002 – Measuring Value (Nick Szabo) – https://nakamotoinstitute.org/measuring-value/ 
  • 2002 – Shelling Out: The Origins Of Money (Nick Szabo) – https://nakamotoinstitute.org/shelling-out/ 
  • 2002 – A History Of Money & Banking In The United States: The Colonial Era To World War II (Murray N. Rothbard) – https://nakamotoinstitute.org/static/docs/a-history-of-money-and-banking-in-the-united-states.pdf 
  • 2008 – The Ethics Of Money Production (Jörg Guido Hülsmann) – https://nakamotoinstitute.org/static/docs/the-ethics-of-money-production.pdf 
  • 2008 – Deflation & Liberty (Jörg Guido Hülsmann) – https://nakamotoinstitute.org/static/docs/deflation-and-liberty.pdf 
  • 2012 – Working and Saving are Revolutionary Acts (Pierre Rochard) – https://nakamotoinstitute.org/mempool/working-and-saving-are-revolutionary-acts/
  • 2012 – Nash Equilibria and Schelling Points (Scott Alexander) – https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/yJfBzcDL9fBHJfZ6P/nash-equilibria-and-schelling-points
  • 2012 – Mechanism design theory examples and complexity – slide deck (Grigoropoulos, Katsikarelis) – https://www.slideshare.net/stathisgrigoropoulos/mechanism-design-theory-examples-and-complexity-final
  • 2012 – Sound Money, Monetary Freedom, and the Government (Dr. Richard M. Ebeling) – https://financialservices.house.gov/uploadedfiles/hhrg-112-ba19-wstate-rebeling-20120802.pdf 
  • 2013 – Algorithmic Game Theory lecture series (Standford) – https://timroughgarden.org/f13/f13.html
  • 2013 – End the Fed: Hoard Bitcoins (Pierre Rochard) – https://nakamotoinstitute.org/mempool/end-the-fed-hoard-bitcoins
  • 2013 – Fractional Reserve Banking is Obsolete (Pierre Rochard) – https://nakamotoinstitute.org/mempool/fractional-reserve-banking-is-obsolete/
  • 2015 – Sound Money through Monetary Competition (Pedro Schwartz) – https://www.econlib.org/library/Columns/y2015/Schwartzmonetarycompetition.html
  • 2016 – Mechanism Design and Approximation (Jason D. Hartline) – https://jasonhartline.com/MDnA/MDnA-ch1to8.pdf
  • 2017 – In Game Theory, No Clear Path to Equilibrium (Erica Klarreich) – https://www.quantamagazine.org/in-game-theory-no-clear-path-to-equilibrium-20170718/
  • 2017 – Mechanism Design Theory (Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences) – https://www.nobelprize.org/uploads/2018/06/advanced-economicsciences2007-2.pdf
  • 2017 – Crashes and Hyperinflation (Daniel Krawisz) – https://nakamotoinstitute.org/mempool/crashes-and-hyperinflation/
  • 2019 – On Sound Money (Ferraro, Jankovic) – https://www.galaxy.com/insights/research/on-sound-money/
  • 2019 – On Free Markets For Money (Ferraro, Jankovic) – https://www.galaxy.com/insights/research/on-free-markets-for-money/
  • 2019 – On Incentives & Scarcity (Ferraro, Jankovic) –  https://www.galaxy.com/insights/research/on-incentives-and-scarcity/ 
  • 2021 – History shows that Bitcoins sound money standard benefits society (Bitcoin Magazine) – https://bitcoinmagazine.com/culture/history-bitcoin-sound-money-helps-society
  • 2021 – Purchasing Power of the U.S. Dollar Over Time (Visual Capitalist) – https://www.visualcapitalist.com/purchasing-power-of-the-u-s-dollar-over-time/#google_vignette
  • 2022 – What is Money? (Lyn Alden) – https://www.lynalden.com/what-is-money/
  • 2023 – A Short History of Fiat Currency Failures: 9 Currencies That Have Collapsed (Hard Money History) – https://www.hardmoneyhistory.com/history-of-fiat-currency-failures/ 
  • 2023 – 15 reasons why fiat currency is bad (Hard Money History) – https://www.hardmoneyhistory.com/why-fiat-currency-is-bad/ 
  • 2024 – The History of Hard Money (Hard Money History) – https://www.hardmoneyhistory.com/hard-money/ 
  • 2024 – The History of Paper Money (Hard Money History) – https://www.hardmoneyhistory.com/history-of-paper-money/

Thanks for reading!

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