... whereas the Keynesians wanted a dollar standard cloaked in a fig-leaf of gold, the monetarists wanted to discard such camouflage, abandon any international money, and simply have national fiat paper ... Case for a 100 Percent Gold Dollar – M.N Rothbard The Case for a 100 Percent Gold Dollar To advocate the complete, uninhibited gold standard runs the risk, in this day and age, of being classified ... of gold and silver to pure name 12 The Case for a 100 Percent Gold Dollar – M.N Rothbard Instead, what happened was that the dollar was defined as a unit of weight, approximately 1/20 of an ounce...