Bimetallism - An Economic and Historical Analysis

A history of Western monetary systems and their preference to the bimetallism before 1800.

List of contents

Acknowledgements; 1. From the Carolingian penny to the Classical gold standard; 2. The mechanics of commodity money; 3. Bimetallism before the nineteenth century; 4. The issue of small-denomination coins; 5. Token coinage and the gold standard in the United Kingdom; 6. Transition to the gold standard in France; 7. Bimetallism in the United States; 8. Conclusions; References; Index.

Summary

This history of bimetallic monetary regimes in the Western world shows how changes in coining technology and fiscal systems affected the evolution of monetary regimes. The book explains why bimetallism was preferred to a gold standard before 1800. This book was first published in 2000.

Product details

• Authors: Angela Redish
• Assisted by: Michael D. Bordo (Editor), Forrest Capie (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.05.2012
• EAN: 9780521570916
• ISBN: 978-0-521-57091-6
• No. of pages: 290
• Dimensions: 157 mm x 235 mm x 22 mm
• Weight: 625 g
• Series: Studies in Macroeconomic Histo
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Economics