Martín-Aceña, Pablo; Ruiz, Elena Martínez; … - Instituto Figuerola de Historia y Ciencias Sociales, … - 2011
The gold standard began to emerge as a universal monetary system in the late 1870s, and it had spread throughout the … world economy by 1900. It was unusual for nations to be off the gold standard, and it meant that they were detached from the … international financial community. Spain never joined the gold standard club in any of its varieties, either before or after 1914 …