Golden Fetters

This is a reassessment of the international monetary crises of the post-World War I period, that led to the Great Depression of the 1930s. It also analyzes the responses of the world's economic powers to the Depression and how new monetary policies set the stage for the watershed post-World War II system established at Bretton Woods. It offers new theories of what effect the Great Depression had on the collapse of the world monetary system, and what effect the collapse had on deepening and prolonging the Depression, by exploring the link between global economic crises and the the gold standard (the framework for international monetary affairs until 1931).

ISBN	0195101138	DEWEY edition	DC20
ISBN13	9780195101133 (What's this?)	Pages	467
Publisher	Oxford University Press Inc	Volumes	1
Imprint	Oxford University Press Inc	Weight (grammes)	721
Format	Paperback	Published in	New York
Publication date	18 Jul 1996	Series title	NBER Series on Long-Term Factors in Economic Development
Non-book description	xix448	Height (mm)	230
Writer of preface	Eichengreen, Barry	Width (mm)	150
Library of Congress	HG3881.J33	Spine width (mm)	35
DEWEY	332.4222	Academic level	Undergraduate, Postgraduate, Professional / Scholarly

"A brilliant new book."--Newsweek

"Very highly recommended."--Choice

"Important and convincingly argued....Even those who are not sympathetic to the arguments and conclusions of this book will agree that it is destined to be an important work for all future students of the gold standard."--Journal of Economic Issues

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Gold Standard and the Great Depression, 1919-39

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