The Gold Standard Illusion - France, Bank of France International Gold Standard, 1914 1939

Zusatztext Scholarly ... Mouré tells the story with an impressive narrative verve and, unusually, tries to see the situation from a French perspective. Informationen zum Autor Born in Calgary AB on 31 March 1956. B.A. in Economics, University of Calgary (1980); M.A. in European History, SUNY at Stony Brook (1981); Ph.D. in European History, University of Toronto (1988). Currently Professor of History at UC Santa Barbara, where he has taught since 1989. Member of the School of Historical Studies, the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton NJ, 1991-1993. Klappentext Did French gold policy cause the Great Depression? The Gold Standard Illusion draws on newly-available French records to test the gold standard interpretation of the Great Depression. It provides a history of French economic understanding, policy-making, and politics with regard to gold, monetary policy, and the key role of financial problems in political instability from 1914 to 1939. Zusammenfassung Did French gold policy cause the Great Depression? The Gold Standard Illusion draws on newly-available French records to test the gold standard interpretation of the Great Depression. It provides a history of French economic understanding, policy-making, and politics with regard to gold, monetary policy, and the key role of financial problems in political instability from 1914 to 1939. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1: The gold standard and central banking to 1914 2: The worm in the fruit 3: Deflation in practice 4: The franc in peril 5: The guillotine's clean cut: The Bank of France and the Poincaré stabilization 6: Rather a faith than a theory: central bank co-operation, 1916-30 7: The gold standard illusion 8: Towards modern central banking 9: Conclusions Appendix I Appendix II

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• Autori: Kenneth Mour?, Kenneth Mourã(c), Kenneth Moure, Kenneth Mouré
• Con la collaborazione di: Oxford University Press (Editore)
• Editore: Oxford University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 02.05.2002
• EAN: 9780199249046
• ISBN: 978-0-19-924904-6
• Pagine: 312
• Dimensioni: 163 mm x 240 mm x 22 mm
• Serie: Print On Demand; Print on demand
• Categorie: Libri scolastici > Didattica > Formazione professionale; History, France, HISTORY / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Money & Monetary Policy, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economic History, Economic history, Monetary Economics, c 1914 to c 1918 (including WW1), c 1919 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), c 1918 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), c 1914 to c 1918 (World War One period)