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Golden fetters : the gold standard and the Great Depression, 1919-1939

This is a reassessment of the international monetary crisis of the post-World War I period that led to the Great Depression of the 1930s. It analyzes the responses of the world economic powers to the Depression and describes how the Depression created the collapse of the world monetary system
Print Book, English, 1992
Oxford University Press, New York, 1992
History
xix, 448 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
9780195064315, 9780195101133, 0195064313, 0195101138
24143265
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