Oxford University Press, Date: 1995, second printing,. /Dust Jacket Included. 1995. Hardcover. 0195089901 hardback, large 8vo, xiv,347pp, clean and tight, no inscriptions, Very Good / Very Good dustwrapper. ISBN: 0195089901 . 1995. Oxford University Press, 1995, second printing, ISBN 0195089901 9780195089905 [GB]

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ISBN10: 0195089901, ISBN13: 9780195089905, [publisher: Oxford University Press Inc, New York] Hardcover Hardcover. Widely considered the crowning achievement in the history of international monetary relations, the classical gold standard (1880-1914) has long been treated like a holy relic. Its veneration, however, has done more to obscure than to reveal the actual nature of the era's monetary system. In The Anatomy of an International Monetary Regime, Giulio M. Gallarotti addresses the nature of the classical gold standard in its international context, offering the firstcomprehensive and systematic treatment of the subject. Three fundamental questions are essential to the discussion: How did the regime originate? How did it work? Why did it persist? Gallarottiuses an interdisciplinary approach that draws upon politics, economics, and ideology to explain the answers. He challenges traditional assumptions about the period, arguing that cooperation among nations or central banks was not a principal factor in either the origin or stability of the system, and that neither the British state nor the Bank of England were the leaders or managers of the gold standard. Rather, a decentralized process involving the status of gold, industrialization and economicdevelopment, the politics of gold, and liberal economic ideology provided converging incentives for starting and maintaining the system. Gallarotti's study presents the most comprehensiveand interdisciplinary ...