Value Given, Value Received, the second volume of the three-part Blind
Vision series, is a critical extension of the fundamentals Curtis Greco
presented in We Hold These Truths... the introductory volume of this
series. Using the language and subject of economics and his own history,
this book grapples not only with the question, "What is freedom?" it
also explores freedom's natural extension - a citizen's personal
industry. Greco brings a fierce urgency to his thesis that far from
being dreadfully tedious or boring, economics and money are, in reality,
intensely personal and relevant issues. Among the subjects covered are
simple economics, monetary policy, the practice of money (including the
dangers of a fiat money system), prospects and proposals for the future,
and a lively discussion of the virtues of an old-fashioned gold/silver
standard. As in We Hold These Truths..., every position Greco advances
draws from the fundamental principles upon which America was founded.