| The Mystery of Banking | |
| Author: | Murray N. Rothbard |
| Country: | United States |
| Subject: | Economics |
| Genre: | Non-fiction |
| Publisher: | Richardson & Snyder |
| Pub Date: | 1983 |
| Media Type: | |
| Pages: | 286 pp. |
| Isbn: | 0-943940-04-4 |
| Oclc: | 10069727 |
The Mystery of Banking is Murray Rothbard's 1983 book explaining the modern fractional-reserve banking system and its origins. In his June 2008 preface to the 298-page second edition, Douglas E. French suggests the work also lays out the “...devastating effects [of fractional-reserve banking] on the lives of every man, woman, and child.”
Rothbard dedicated the book to Thomas Jefferson, Charles Holt Campbell, and Ludwig von Mises, all “Champions of Hard Money.”