The gold standard is a monetary arrangement whereby the currency in circulation is equivalent to a fixed value of gold. The gold standard was replaced by fiat currency, whereby the government or central bank is ultimately responsible for the value of the money. Until 1971, the U.S. dollar was fixed to the price of gold. Many economists feel that reverting to the gold standard would  quell inflation because of the fixed value feature.

Articles

• Toward Radical Monetary Reform by Lawrence W. Reed
• Gold versus Fractional Reserves by Henry Hazlitt
• Central Banks, Gold, and the Decline of the Dollar by Robert Batemarco
• How Gold Was Money- How Gold Could be Money Again by Richard H. Timberlake
• Gold Standard by Ludwig von Mises
• The Gold Standard and Fractional Reserve Banking by Joe Cobb
• Back to Gold? by Henry Hazlitt
• Money and Gold in the 1920s and 1930s by Joseph T. Salerno
• No Shortage of Gold by Hans F. Sennholz
• How to Return to Gold by Henry Hazlitt
• The Solution by Murray N. Rothbard
• A Golden Comeback, Part 1 by Mark Skousen
• A Golden Comeback, Part 2 by Mark Skousen
• A Golden Comeback, Part 3 by Mark Skousen
• The Value of Money by Hans F. Sennholz
• A Closer Look at Gold by Charles E. Weber
• Hazlitt on Gold by Jude Blanchette
• How Much Money? by Percy L. Greaves Jr.
• The Future of the Dollar by Henry Hazlitt
• Gold Policy in the 1930s by Richard H. Timberlake

Audio

• Peace and Gold by Steve Horwitz
• Is the Gold Standard a Viable Policy Option? by Lawrence White