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| Author: | Kemp, J. Wilson, T. |
| Title: | Monetary regime transformation: the scramble to gold in the late nineteenth century |
| Journal: | Review of Political Economy
1999 : APR, VOL. 11:2, p. 125-150 |
| Index terms: | POLITICAL ECONOMY MONETARY SYSTEM CHANGE |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | The late nineteenth century saw a movement among nation states which led to the widespread adoption of an international gold standard. So far, research has failed to demonstrate any specific qualities of gold that would explain its selection in preference to systems based upon silver or bimetallism. Neither has it proved possible to account for this choice in terms of any specific events in the historical record. |
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