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, 1992
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| Series: | NBER series on long-term factors in economic development / NBER series on long-term factors in economic development
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| Collection: | Oxford University Press - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
| 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: | xix, 448 p. ill., maps |
| ISBN: | 9780199869626 |