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Broken Money
The most comprehensive modern treatment of monetary history and the case for Bitcoin. Alden traces money from shells and gold to fiat and digital currency, explaining why the current system is fundamentally broken and why Bitcoin represents a genuine technological breakthrough in the history of money.
This is one of the most important works in the liberty tradition — essential for any serious student of free markets and individual rights.
What You'll Learn from Broken Money
- 1This work offers rigorous analysis of its subject from a liberty-oriented perspective.
- 2The author builds a systematic argument from first principles.
- 3The implications for policy and practice are far-reaching.
- 4Readers will gain tools for understanding the unintended consequences of intervention.
- 5Essential reading for anyone serious about the ideas of freedom.
Lyn Alden
Lyn Alden is a macroeconomic analyst and investment strategist whose research blends Austrian economics, monetary history, and modern portfolio theory. She is one of the most rigorous and widely-read financial analysts in the Bitcoin space.