This book offers a reassessment of the international monetary problems that led to the global economic crisis of the 1930s. The author shows how policies, in co

This book offers a reassessment of the international monetary problems that led to the global economic crisis of the 1930s. It explores the connections between

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

"A brilliantly conceived dual-track account of the two greatest economic crises of the last century and their consequences"--