Monetary Regimes in Transition

This important contribution to comparative economic history examines different countries' experiences with different monetary regimes.

Michael D. Bordo (Author), Forrest Capie (Author)

9780521030427, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 2 November 2006

412 pages, 54 b/w illus. 57 tables
22.8 x 15.2 x 2.6 cm, 0.614 kg

'… well-produced and thought-provoking set of essays …' Tim Congdon, The Times Literary Supplement

This important contribution to comparative economic history examines different countries' experiences with different monetary regimes, laying particular emphasis on how the regimes fared when placed under stress such as wars or other changes in the economic environment. Covering the experience of ten countries over the period 1700–1990, the contributors employ the latest techniques of economic analysis in their studies. Several papers are concerned with the transformation from bimetallism to gold monometallism in the nineteenth century and the determinants of monetary regimes transformation in the core countries of Britain, France and the United States. Others focus on the successful and unsuccessful gold standard experiences of Canada, Australia, and Spain, while yet others examine the experience of wartime and postwar stabilizations surrounding the two World Wars and the Napoleonic War.

List of figures
List of tables
List of contributors
1. Introduction Michael D. Bordo and Forrest Capie
Part I. Commodity Money Standards in Transition: 2. The scramble for gold: monetary regime transformation in the 1870s Giulio M. Gallarotti
3. The Latin Monetary Union and the emergence of the international gold standard Angela Redish
4. Greenback resumption and silver risk: the economics and politics of monetary regime change in the United States, 1862–1900 Charles W. Calomiris
Part II. Successful and Unsuccessful Adherence to the Gold Standard: 5. Spain during the classical gold standard years, 1880–1914 Pablo Martín-Aceña
6. Canada and the gold standard, 1871–1914: a durable monetary regime Trevor J. O. Dick and John E. Floyd
7. Australia's payments adjustment and capital flows under the international gold standard, 1870–1913 David Pope
Part III. Wartime Upheaval and Postwar Stabilization: 8. British and French finance during the Napoleonic Wars Michael D. Bordo and Eugene N. White
9. Interpreting a change in monetary policy regimes: a reappraisal of the first Hungarian hyperinflation and stabilization, 1921–1928 Pierre L. Siklos
10. Halting inflation in Italy and France after the Second World War Alessandra Casella and Barry Eichengreen
11. The rise and fall of credit controls: the case of Sweden, 1939–1989 Lars Jonung
Part IV. Perspectives on Monetary Regimes: 12. An assessment of monetary regimes Anna J. Schwartz
Index.

Subject Areas: Monetary economics [KCBM]