Golden Fetters: The Gold Standard and the Great Depression, 1919-1939
Description
This influential economic history examines how the international gold standard shaped—and ultimately deepened—the Great Depression between the two world wars. It traces the efforts of governments and central banks to preserve monetary stability, showing how the system constrained national responses to financial crisis and transmitted economic hardship across borders. Combining rigorous analysis with a broad international perspective, the book explores the connections among monetary policy, political decision-making, unemployment, and social upheaval. It offers a compelling explanation of why the Depression became a worldwide catastrophe and why abandoning the gold standard was crucial to recovery.
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paperback
Oxford University Press, USA
Published Jan 8, 1996
480 pages
ISBN: 9780195101133
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First Published
1992
Language
eng
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