Gold Standard In Theory & History [Paperback]

Barry Eichengreen (Author), Marc Flandreau (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0415150612 | ISBN-13: 978-0415150613 | Publication Date: September 8, 1997 | Edition: 2

Since the successful first edition of The Gold Standard in Theory and History was published in 1985, much new research has been completed. This updated version contains five new essays including:
* post 1990 literature on exchange rate target zones
* a discussion of the light shed by the gold standard on the European Monetary Union debate
* a new introduction by Eichengreen with Marc Flandreau
This will be an invaluable resource for students of macroeconomics, international economics and economic history at all levels.

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This revised edition of The Gold Standard in Theory and History should feature widely on reading lists in economics and economic history departments. I would certainly encouarge students to read it.
–Professor Nick Crafts, London School of Economics

Product Details

• Paperback: 352 pages
• Publisher: Routledge; 2 edition (September 8, 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0415150612
• ISBN-13: 978-0415150613
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6.1 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #976,154 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Barry Eichengreen is George C. Pardee and Helen N. Pardee Professor of Economics and Political Science at the University of California, NBER Research Associate, and CEPR Research Fellow. He writes a monthly column for Project Syndicate and periodic columns for Conjuntura Economica (in Brazil), Finanz und Wirtschaft (in Switzerland), and Eurointelligence (in Europe).

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Eichengreen and Flandreau put together a tour-de-force through the most intriguing meanders of the gold standard, a monetary system governing world trade and payments from 1870 to World War II. From the simple and powerful analysis of Hume in the eighteenth century, the book features many contributions from the most influential architects of the system. Keynes, Nurkse and Triffin speak from its pages. Also, contemporary leading economists, with the perspective that only history provides, analyze it in hindsight. A must have for the economic historian and the monetary economist.