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Meet the Teacher: Fall 2006
Hi, folks. Here’s a bit of personal information about me: I was born in the Redwoods, in northern California. My dad worked for our favorite Uncle Sam, as a wildlife refuge biologist with the US […]
Lewis H. Blair on free currency
In working through Alfred Westrup’s New Philosophy of Money, I’ve encountered a number of interesting writers with whom I was previously unfamiliar. One of these is Lewis H. Blair, a southern anti-protectionist, currency reformer and […]
Anti-Anarchist Classics: Schaack’s “Anarchy & Anarchists”
Radical historians have their guilty pleasures too, and Michael J.Schaack’s Anarchy and anarchists has to rank right up there in my top ten list. Subtitled “A history of the Red terror and the social revolution […]
Alfred B. Westrup, “Liberty,” and “Plenty of Money”
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, […]
Herman Kuehn, “The Capital Controversy”
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, “The True American System of Finance”
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 […]
Thomas Mendenhall, “National Money” (1816)
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 […]
Anarchist Pamphlets in the Labadie Collection
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 […]
New in the Labyrinth: Kuehn and Guyau
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 […]