1. Introduction - Incantations for a ‘Barbarous Relic’ -- 2. 21st Century Economics of the Gold Price -- 3. The ASGM … Sector in Africa- Lessons from China -- 4. Africa’s Toxic Alchemy -- 5. Gold in South Africa- Lessons from the Apartheid era … -- 6. Gold, Oil and Revolution in North Africa -- 7. Trade and the Smuggling of Gold from West Africa to the UAE -- 8. Gold …

1. Introduction: Snapshots of Global Gold Mining -- PART 1: TRENDS IN GLOBAL GOLD PRODUCTION -- 2. Theorizing the … Global Gold Production System -- 3. Global Expansion -- 4. Informalization -- 5. Technological Innovation -- PART 2: GLOBAL … GOLD PRODUCTION TOUCHING GROUND -- 6. Brazil: Garimpagem, Forever Informal -- 7. Peru: Curtailing Smuggling, Regionalizing …

: Origins and Evolution -- The Classic Gold Standard -- The Gold-Exchange Standard, its Collapse, and the Interwar Lack of an …This book presents the evolution of the international monetary system from the gold standard to the monetary system in …

and commented on changes in financial markets and the monetary policies of central banks around the world for more than 40 …

: Afterword to Part III -- Part 4: Fixed-Rate Monetary Standards -- Chapter 13: Metallic Standards -- Chapter 14: Classical Gold …

-- Chapter 3- The Market’s New Gold and the Promise of Bitcoin -- Chapter 4: Final Thoughts on Commodities, Crypto and Inflation. … belief today in financial markets. Specifically, it focuses on gold as a traditional hedge and the ways in which crypto … around the performance of gold since the 2008 financial crisis, analyzing its characteristics, relationship with inflation …