Golden Fetters: The Gold Standard and the Great Depression, 1919-1939 (Nber Series on Long-Term Factors in Economic Development)

by Barry Eichengreen
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA (1996-02-08)
ISBN: 0195101138
EAN: 9780195101133
Binding/Media: Paperback - 480 pages
SKU: L1-1090513002
Condition: Used: Good
Comments: This First Printing copy is in good condition. There's reference column writings and underlining in the first quarter of the copy. No visible highlights, tears to text. Tight spine. A few pages on the Side foredge has a coffee stain. No Dust Jacket. Front/back/top/bottom of Soft Cover has a small crease with tiny chips to top front edge. Apart from flaws described to Cover, it has more moderate than lots of shelf/edge wear. Overall good copy worth having at an affordable price. (L1-1)

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This book offers a reassessment of the international monetary problems that led to the global economic crisis of the 1930s. It explores the connections between the gold standard--the framework regulating international monetary affairs until 1931--and the Great Depression that broke out in 1929. Eichengreen shows how economic policies, in conjunction with the imbalances created by World War I, gave rise to the global crisis of the 1930s. He demonstrates that the gold standard fundamentally constrained the economic policies that were pursued and that it was largely responsible for creating the unstable economic environment on which those policies acted. The book also provides a valuable perspective on the economic policies of the post-World War II period and their consequences.

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