Table of Contents

1. Introduction: The Experience of Free Banking 2. Overview: The World History of Free Banking Kurt Schuler 3. Free Banking in Australia Kevin Dowd 4. Free Banking in Canada Kurt Schuler 5. Free Banking in Columbia Adolfo Meisel 6. Free Banking in Foochow George A. Selgin 7. Free Banking in France (1796-1803) Philippwe Nataf 8. Free Banking in Ireland Howard Bodenhorn 9. Free Banking in Scotland before 1844 Lawrence H. White 10. Free Banking in Switzerland after the Liberal Revolutions in the Nineteenth Century Ernst Juerg Weber 11. US Banking in the "Free Banking" Period Kevin Dowd.

Reviews

"As its title indicates, this book is about the experience with-as opposed to the theory of-free banking. But the opening chapters provide enough in the way of carefully thought out definitions and hints about the corresponding theory to make the accounts of the actual episodes of free banking generally understandable."
-"Southern Economic Journal, January 1994