Economist Richard Rahn makes that argument in this piece published yesterday.

People who think they are economic sophisticates scoff at the idea that a nation could have a prosperous, advancing economy without the “help” of a central bank. They’re mistaken. Central banking does not enable economic growth, which occurs because people invest where they see profit opportunities. All that central banking does is to mess that up by tampering with market prices signals, especially interest rates. Central banking gets in the way of growth and we’d be much better off if we had never created the Federal Reserve.