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

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ISBN-10:: 0199249040
ISBN-13:: 9780199249046
Pub. Date:: 06/27/2002
Publisher:: Oxford University Press

ISBN-10:: 0199249040
ISBN-13:: 9780199249046
Pub. Date:: 06/27/2002
Publisher:: Oxford University Press

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

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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.

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ISBN-13:	9780199249046
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	06/27/2002
Pages:	312
Product dimensions:	9.21(w) x 6.14(h) x 0.75(d)

About the Author

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.

Introduction1. The gold standard and central banking to 19142. The worm in the fruit3. Deflation in practice4. The franc in peril5. The guillotine's clean cut: The Bank of France and the Poincaré stabilization6. Rather a faith than a theory: central bank co-operation, 1916-307. The gold standard illusion8. Towards modern central banking9. ConclusionsAppendix IAppendix II

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