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Golden fetters : the gold standard and the Great Depression, 1919-1939 / Barry Eichengreen.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Eichengreen.
- Series:
- NBER series on long-term factors in economic development.
- NBER series on long-term factors in economic development
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Gold standard--History--20th century.
- Gold standard.
- Depressions--1929.
- Depressions.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xix, 448 p.) : ill., maps.
- Other Title:
- Golden fetters
- NBER series on long-term factors in economic development
- Place of Publication:
- New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1992.
- Summary:
- Eichengreen argues that the gold standard of the 1920s set the stage for the Depression of the 1930s by heightening the fragility of the international financial system, and was the mechanism that transmitted the destabilizing impulse from the USA to the rest of the world.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780199869626 (ebook) :
- 0199869626 (ebook) :
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