Golden Fetters

The Gold Standard and the Great Depression, 1919-1939

Datos Bibliográficos

ID9708937
AutoresD E Moggridge, Barry Eichengreen (0000-0002-1683-4486)
Año1993
Volumen103
Número418
Páginas746
Fecha de publicación1993-05-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaThe Economic Journal (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0013-0133 • E-ISSN: 1468-0297
EditorialOxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/2234551
OpenAlexW3021885495
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas30

This book is a reassessment of the international monetary crises of the post-World War I period that led to the Great Depression of the 1930s. It also analyses the responses of the world economic powers to the Depression and how new monetary policies set the stage for the watershed post-World War II system established at Bretton Woods. It offers new theories of what effect the Great Depression had on the collapse of the world monetary system, and what effect the collapse had on deepening and prolonging the Depression, by exploring the link between global economic crisis and the the gold standard (the framework for international monetary affairs until 1931). The events described had a profound effect upon twentieth-century history: the Depression abetted the rise of Hitler and the demise of the gold standard is a historical cause of inflation. Available in OSO: http://www.oxfordscholarship.com/oso/public/content/economicsfinance/9780195101133/toc.html(This abstract was borrowed from another version of this item.)

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