attempt to restore an international gold standard after World War I and did not originate, as Friedman believed, in the United …, who both warned that restoring the gold standard would cause catastrophic deflation unless monetary demand for gold was …

The remarkably successful gold standard before 1914 was the first international monetary regime. This book addresses … the experience of the gold standard peripheries; i.e. regime takers with limited influence on the regime. How did small …