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.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Eichengreen, Barry J. (Author)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Oxford University Press, 1992.
Series:	NBER series on long-term factors in economic development.
Subjects:	Gold standard > History > 20th century. Depressions > 1929. Étalon-or > Histoire > 20e siècle. Crises économiques > 1929. Depressions Gold standard Börsenkrach Internationales Währungssystem Wechselkurs Wirtschaftskrise Gouden standaard. De Crisis. 1900-1999 Geschichte 1914. Monetary system > History Electronic books. History
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Table of Contents:

1. Introduction
2. The Classical Gold Standard in Interwar Perspective
3. The Wartime Transition
4. Postwar Instability
5. The Legacy Of Hyperinflation
6. Reconstructing the Facade
7. The Interwar Gold Standard in Operation
8. Cracks in the Facade
9. Crisis and Opportunity
10. Tentative Adjustments
11. The Dollar and the World Economic Conference
12. Toward the Tripartite Agreement
13. Conclusion.