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# Sound Money
An [Austrian economics](ideologies/austrian-economics.md) philosophy that an idealized [currency](currency.md) should be backed by a finite unchanging supply and fixed supply of a [commodity](commodity.md), or more recently a [cryptoasset](cryptoasset.md).
See [gold standard](gold-standard.md) and [libertarianism](ideologies/libertarianism.md).
## References
* Doctorow, Cory. 2022. Money Is Power. 3 February 2022. https://pluralistic.net/2022/02/03/liquidation-preference/.
* Sanz Bas, David. 2020. Hayek and the Cryptocurrency Revolution. Iberian Journal of the History of Economic Thought 7 (1): 1528. https://doi.org/10.5209/ijhe.69403.
* Allon, Fiona. 2018. Money after Blockchain: Gold, Decentralised Politics and the New Libertarianism. Australian Feminist Studies 33 (96): 22343. https://doi.org/10.1080/08164649.2018.1517245.
* Inwood, Olivia, and Michele Zappavigna. 2021. Ideology, Attitudinal Positioning, and the Blockchain: A Social Semiotic Approach to Understanding the Values Construed in the Whitepapers of Blockchain Start-Ups. Social Semiotics, 119. https://doi.org/10.1080/10350330.2021.1877995.
* Wolf, Martin. 2019. The Libertarian Fantasies of Cryptocurrencies. Financial Times, February. https://www.ft.com/content/eeeacd7c-2e0e-11e9-ba00-0251022932c8.
* Fantacci, Luca. 2019. Cryptocurrencies and the Denationalization of Money. International Journal of Political Economy 48 (2): 10526. https://doi.org/10.1080/08911916.2019.1624319.
* Bernanke, Ben S. 2004. Essays on the Great Depression. Princeton University Press.
* Caferra, Rocco, Gabriele Tedeschi, and Andrea Morone. 2021. Bitcoin: Bubble That Bursts or Gold That Glitters? Economics Letters 205: 109942. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2021.109942.
* Selmi, Refk, Jamal Bouoiyour, and Mark E. Wohar. 2022. “Digital Gold” and Geopolitics. Research in International Business and Finance 59: 101512. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ribaf.2021.101512.