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The Glitter of Gold

France, Bimetallism, and the Emergence of the International Gold Standard, 1848-1873

By: Marc Flandreau

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The Glitter of Gold

France, Bimetallism, and the Emergence of the International Gold Standard, 1848-1873

By: Marc Flandreau

This book studies the so far unexplored operation of the international monetary system that prevailed before the emergence of the international gold standard in 1873. Conventional wisdom has it that the emergence of gold as a global anchor was both an inescapable and desirable evolution, given the exchange rate stability it provided and Britain's economic predominance. This study draws on a wealth of archival sources and abundant new statistical evidence (fully detailed in the appendix) to demonstrate that global exchange rate stability always prevailed before the making of the gold standard. This was despite the heterogeneity among national monetary regimes, based on gold, silver, or both. The reason for the stability before the establishment of the gold standard is France's bimetallic system. France, by being in a position to trade gold for silver, and vice versa, effectively pegged the exchange rate between gold and silver at its legal ratio of 15.5. Part I of the book studies exactly how this mechanism worked. Part II focuses on the respective behaviour of private concerns and arbitrageurs on the one hand, and authorities such as the Bank of France on the other hand, in order to underline the constraints and opportunities that were associated with bimetallism as an international regime. Finally, Part III provides a new view on the collapse of bimetallism and its replacement by a gold standard. It is argued that bimetallism might well have survived, and that the emergence of the gold standard was by no means inescapable. Rather, it resulted from a massive coordination failure at both national and international levels - a failure that was a preview of the interwar collapse of the gold standard.

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The Glitter of Gold

France, Bimetallism, and the Emergence of the International Gold Standard, 1848-1873

By: Marc Flandreau

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France, Bimetallism, and the Emergence of the International Gold Standard, 1848-1873

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Anthropologists in the Stock Exchange

A Financial History of Victorian Science

By: Marc Flandreau

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Anthropologists in the Stock Exchange

A Financial History of Victorian Science

By: Marc Flandreau

Uncovering strange plots by early British anthropologists to use scientific status to manipulate the stock market, Anthropologists in the Stock Exchange tells a provocative story that marries the birth of the social sciences with the exploits of global finance. Marc Flandreau tracks a group of Victorian gentleman-swindlers as they shuffled between the corridors of the London Stock Exchange and the meeting rooms of learned society, showing that anthropological studies were integral to investment and speculation in foreign government debt, and, inversely, that finance played a crucial role in shaping the contours of human knowledge. Flandreau argues that finance and science were at the heart of a new brand of imperialism born during Benjamin Disraeli’s first term as Britain’s prime minister in the 1860s. As anthropologists advocated the study of Miskito Indians or stated their views on a Jamaican rebellion, they were in fact catering to the impulses of the stock exchange—for their own benefit. In this way the very development of the field of anthropology was deeply tied to issues relevant to the financial market—from trust to corruption. Moreover, this book shows how the interplay between anthropology and finance formed the foundational structures of late nineteenth-century British imperialism and helped produce essential technologies of globalization as we know it today.

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University of Chicago Press

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022636058X

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Gold Standard In Theory & History

By: Marc Flandreau

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Gold Standard In Theory & History

By: Marc Flandreau

Since the first edition, published in 1985, much new research has been completed. This updated version includes five new essays, including a new introduction by Eichengreen and a discussion of the gold standard and the EU monetary debate.

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Routledge

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A Financial History of Victorian Science

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A Financial History of Victorian Science

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Official Blackbook Price Guide To United States Paper Money 2009

By: Marc Hudgeons,Tom Hudgeons, Sr.,Thomas E. Hudgeons, Jr.

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Official Blackbook Price Guide To United States Paper Money 2009

By: Marc Hudgeons,Tom Hudgeons, Sr.,Thomas E. Hudgeons, Jr.

Covering every single national note issued from 1861 to the present, including Confederate currency, a completely illustrated price guide to U.S. currency includes more than six thousand updated prices, along with tips on trading and collecting and a glossary of monetary terms. Original.

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House of Collectibles

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0375721711

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Official Blackbook Price Guide to United States Paper Money 2010

By: Marc Hudgeons,Tom Hudgeons, Jr.

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Official Blackbook Price Guide to United States Paper Money 2010

By: Marc Hudgeons,Tom Hudgeons, Jr.

Covering every national bank note issued since 1861, an up-to-date annual resource lists thousands of current national market prices while providing authoritative guidelines for how to buy and sell collectible pieces, a glossary of terms, and listings for paper money publications and organizations. Original.

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0375723218

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The Global Financial Crisis and the New Monetary Consensus

By: Marc Pilkington

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The Global Financial Crisis and the New Monetary Consensus

By: Marc Pilkington

The Global Financial Crisis has reshuffled the cards for central banks throughout the world. In the wake of the biggest crisis since the Great Depression, this volume traces the evolution of modern central banking over the last fifty years. It takes in the inflationary chaos of the 1970s and the monetarist experiments of the 1980s, eventually leading to the New Monetary Consensus, which took shape in the 1990s and prevailed until 2007. The book then goes on to review the limitations placed on monetary policy in the aftermath of the global meltdown, arguing that the financial crisis has shaken the new monetary consensus. In the aftermath of the worst crisis since the Great Depression, the book investigates the nature of present and future monetary policy. Is the Taylor rule still a satisfactory monetary precept for central bankers? Has the New Monetary Consensus been shaken by the Global Financial Crisis? What are the fundamental issues raised by the latter cataclysmic chain of events? How should central banks conceptualize monetary policy anew in a post-crisis scenario? Existing books have dwelt extensively on the characteristics of the New Monetary Consensus, but few have cast light on its relevance in a post-crisis scenario. This book seeks to fill this gap, drawing on the lessons from five decades of contrasted theoretical approaches ranging from Keynesianism, monetarism, new classical macroeconomics, inflation targeting and more recently, pragmatic global crisis management.

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1134582560

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Trumpet Records

Diamonds on Farish Street

By: Marc Ryan

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Trumpet Records

Diamonds on Farish Street

By: Marc Ryan

In a new edition, the history of a regional record company and the blues, gospel, and R&B greats it launched nationally

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Univ. Press of Mississippi

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1617035254

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Gold Standard In Theory & History

By: Barry Eichengreen,Marc Flandreau

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Gold Standard In Theory & History

By: Barry Eichengreen,Marc Flandreau

Since the successful first edition of The Gold Standard in Theory and History was published in 1985, much new research has been completed. This updated version contains five new essays including: * post 1990 literature on exchange rate target zones * a discussion of the light shed by the gold standard on the European Monetary Union debate * a new introduction by Eichengreen with Marc Flandreau This will be an invaluable resource for students of macroeconomics, international economics and economic history at all levels.

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1134747497

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Gold Standard In Theory & History

By: Marc Flandreau

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Book's by Marc Flandreau

The Glitter of Gold

The Glitter of Gold

The Glitter of Gold

The Glitter of Gold

Anthropologists in the Stock Exchange

Anthropologists in the Stock Exchange

Gold Standard In Theory & History

Gold Standard In Theory & History

Anthropologists in the Stock Exchange

Anthropologists in the Stock Exchange

Official Blackbook Price Guide To United States Paper Money 2009

Official Blackbook Price Guide To United States Paper Money 2009

Official Blackbook Price Guide to United States Paper Money 2010

Official Blackbook Price Guide to United States Paper Money 2010

The Global Financial Crisis and the New Monetary Consensus

The Global Financial Crisis and the New Monetary Consensus

Trumpet Records

Trumpet Records

Gold Standard In Theory & History

Gold Standard In Theory & History

Gold Standard In Theory & History

Gold Standard In Theory & History

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