Golden fetters : the gold standard and the Great Depression, 1919-1939 /
Eichengreen argues that the gold standard of the 1920s set the stage for the Depression of the 1930s by heightening the fragility of the international financial system, and was the mechanism that transmitted the destabilizing impulse from the USA to the rest of the world.
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
1992.
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| Series: | NBER series on long-term factors in economic development.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | Eichengreen argues that the gold standard of the 1920s set the stage for the Depression of the 1930s by heightening the fragility of the international financial system, and was the mechanism that transmitted the destabilizing impulse from the USA to the rest of the world. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xix, 448 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 401-425) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780199879137 0199879133 0195101138 9780195101133 9780199869626 0199869626 |