Eichengreen, Barry; Flandreau, Marc - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1994
In this paper we chart the geography of the gold standard. We highlight the late date of the move to gold and the … bimetallic standard at mid-century depended not so much on whether it was rich or poor as on the monetary standard of the foreign … gold standard between the 1870s and the first decade of the twentieth century. We enumerate the factors propelling this …