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Attributes the onset of the Great Depression to the workings of the international gold standard. The study provides a history of French gold policy and the Bank of France, re-examines interwar bank co-operation, and looks at how gold standard rhetoric fostered misperceptions of financial problems.
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
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Attributes the onset of the Great Depression to the workings of the international gold standard. The study provides a history of French gold policy and the Bank of France, re-examines interwar bank co-operation, and looks at how gold standard rhetoric fostered misperceptions of financial problems.
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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Autorenporträt
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.