Ricardo and the gold standard : the foundations of the international monetary order
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Ricardo and the gold standard : the foundations of the international monetary order
Macmillan, c1991
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La teoria del gold standard
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Includes bibliographical references (P. 153-180) and index
Translation of: La teoria del gold standard
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The foundations of the monetary system which governed the world economies until the First World War were laid at the beginning of the 19th century. While the City was developing as the centre of the network of international payments, Ricardo was embarking on the task of understanding the main features of that world. With characteristic thoroughness and rigour he laid the basis of the international monetary system which became known as the Gold Standard. Its foundations rested on the belief that gold was the best monetary standard and on trust in the market rather than in the monetary authority to provide the guidance and the adjusting mechanism of the international monetary order. This book combines historical investigation and theoretical analysis to present the Ricardian approach and provides an updated assessment of these arguments in the light of modern experience.
Table of Contents
- Part 1 Ricardo's writings: gold, the exchnge rate and the quantity of money
- the "Essay" and the "Proposals"
- value and distribution
- in Parliament. Part 2 Credit and currency: the English financial revolution
- the banking system
- currency circulation. Part 3 The value of money: the measure of the value of money
- the invariable measure of value
- absolute value and relative value of gold. Part 4 The quantity of money: alternative approaches
- cost of production and equilibrium quantity of gold
- the adjustment mechanisms of the quantity of money
- price stability under the Gold Standard. Part 5 Trade and international finance: mercantile houses and merchant banks
- the bill of exchange
- subsidies
- loans. Part 6 The gold market: international payments
- the London gold market
- the export and import of gold. Part 7 The Foreign Exchange market: the price of gold
- the rate of exchange
- the exchange rate between London and Hamburg. Part 8 The theory of the Gold Standard: the "Redundancy of Currency"
- stable and unstable monetary regimes
- stopping rule for gold movements
- Ricardo's method. part 9 Ricardo and his time: gold as a commodity
- the theory of unilateral transfer
- market and money.
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