Golden Fetters: Analysis of the Gold Standard and the Great Depression

A book reassessing the international monetary crises following World War I that led to the Great Depression. It analyzes the responses of world economic powers and how new monetary policies set the stage for the Bretton Woods system. The work offers new theories on the link between the global economic crisis and the gold standard.

Use Cases

• Historical analysis of monetary policy based on the described link between the gold standard and the Great Depression.
• Research on international economic crises based on the reassessment of post-World War I monetary affairs.
• Study of policy responses based on the analysis of world economic powers' actions during the Depression.

Strengths

• Focuses on a pivotal period in 20th-century economic history, covering events from post-World War I to the Bretton Woods system.
• Offers new theoretical perspectives on the relationship between the gold standard's collapse and the severity of the Great Depression.

Limitations

• The underlying data format, structure, and size are unknown, making suitability for computational analysis unclear.
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• Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.

Provenance

Source

Benjamin Rhodes

Time Range

Post-World War I period through the 1930s Great Depression, leading to the post-World War II Bretton Woods system.

Geography

Global