Golden Fetters —— The Gold Standard and the Great Depression, 1919-1939

----- 金链条：1919到1939年的黄金标准和大萧条

ISBN: 9780195101133 出版年：2003 页码： Eichengreen, Barry Oxford University Press

Golden Fetters provides a new analysis of the Depression, one which explores the connections between the gold standard--the framework regulating international monetary affairs until 1931--and the global economic crisis. It shows how economic policies, in conjunction with the imbalances created by World War I, gave rise to the global crisis of the 1930s. Its central argument is that the gold standard fundamentally constrained the policies that were pursued and that it was largely responsible for creating the unstable economic environment on which they acted.