Extra Readings for November 3, The Classical
Gold Standard
Economics 210a, Fall 1999
Robert Barro, "Money and the Price level Under the Gold
Standard," Economic Journal (1979).
Bloomfield, Arthur, "Short Term Capital Movements Under
the Pre-1913 Gold Standard," Princeton Studies in International
Finance (1963).
John Dutton, "The Bank of England and the Rules of the
Game Under the International Gold Standard," in Michael
Bordo and Anna Schwartz (eds), A Retrospective on the Classical
Gold Standard (Chicago, 1982).
Barry Eichengreen, Globalizing Capital: A History of the
International Monetary System (Princeton, 1996).
Giulio Gallarotti, The Anatomy of an International monetary
Regime: The Classical Gold Standard, 1880-1914 (Oxford University
Press, 1995)
David Hume (1752), "On the Balance of Trade," in
Essays, Moral, Political and Literary (Longman Green,
1898).
John Maynard Keynes, The Economic Consequences of Mr. Churchill
(Macmillan, 1925).
John Maynard Keynes, "The Significance of the Gold Points,"
A Treatise on Money (Macmillan, 1930), vol. 2, pp.319-331.
Ragnar Nurkse, International Currency Experience (League
of Nations, 1944).
John Pippinger, "Bank of England Operations, 1893-1913,"
in Michael Bordo and Anna Schwartz (eds), A Retrospective
on the Classical Gold Standard (Chicago, 1982).
Redish, Angela, "The Evolution of the Gold Standard in
England," Journal of Economic History (1990).
Rockoff, Hugh, "Some Evidence on the Real Price of Gold,
its Costs of Production, and Commodity Prices," in Michael
Bordo and Anna Schwartz (eds), A Retrospective on the Classical
Gold Standard (Chicago, 1982).
Robert Triffin, "The Myth and Realties of the So-Called
Gold Standard," in The Evolution of the International
Monetary System (Random House
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