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Could education be soley funded by Hayekian Private money system?

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denison Posted: Tue, Dec 7 2010 1:39 PM

http://mises.org/daily/1854

Do you think education could be fully funded by a private fiat currency system alongside a honest money system in a libertarian society?

Now in order for this system to work the whole education system would have to have it's own:
 

  • Banks(fraction reserve system that allows for heavy inflation)
  • Currency(originally linked to a commodity)
  • Stocks, Bonds, Funds etc...(so outsiders could bet on the system, invest etc...)
  • Educational codes/Labor codes(regarding work for study, vouchers etc...)
  • (Of course) Institutions, Campuses, Centers, Courts(academic probation)
  • Councils, Officials, Chairmen etc.....

This system would be able to support anyone who wants in. And it would cover all types of education imaginable.
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denison replied on Tue, Dec 7 2010 1:42 PM

Just to clarify:

I'm asking if a private fiat currency system could fully fund eduction(of the majority) virtually free-of-cost to those 'in the system'? As long as they have confidence in the currency and use it. Inflation would exist to accommodate new comers and growth of the 'institution'.

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I dont know about the question of education specifically, but I have long been of the opinion that a libertarian society would utilize private forms of fiat currency as well as precious metals as competing forms of money. 

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