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It is impossible to discuss the opinions of writers on central bank monopoly without attending to economic history, so that the range of my brief, in the sense of economic thought only, is too narrow. It is difficult to summarise the whole conspectus of economic opinion on central banking in Britain, France, Germany, the U.S., Italy and Spain in a short article, so that the range, from another point of view, is too wide.
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Schwartz, P., O’Mahony, D., White, L.H. (1984). The history of monetary thought on currency competition. In: Salin, P. (eds) Currency Competition and Monetary Union. Financial and Monetary Policy Studies, vol 8. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-6077-0_4
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