How the Gold Standard Worked, 1880-1913
Books, Journal Articles, The History of Money — By admin on January 6, 2010 at 2:43 PM“This essay reinterprets the gold standard by applying the monetary theory of the balance of payments to the experience of the two most important countries on it, America and Britain. Before explaining, testing and using the theory in detail, it will be useful to indicate a few of the ways in which accepting it will change the interpretation of the gold standard of the late nineteenth century. The most direct implication is that central bankers did not have control over the variables over which they and their historians have believed they had control.” Read more.
How the Gold Standard Worked, 1880-1913
Donald N. McCloskey and J. Richard Zecher
Measurement and meaning in economics: The essential Deirdre McCloskey. 2001, pp. 64-81.
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Hello there – just a little note to say kudos for this entry. Very helpful.