Golden Fetters: The Gold Standard and the Great Depression, 1919-1939

by Barry Eichengreen

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195101138
• ISBN13: 9780195101133
• Release Date: February 1996
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 480 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.1" x 9.3"