Quotulatiousness

December 8, 2016

The History of Paper Money – VI: The Gold Standard – Extra History

Filed under: Economics, History, WW1 — Tags: , , , — Nicholas @ 04:00

Published on Nov 5, 2016

Even as the use of paper money grew, ties to the gold standard remained… and remained challenging. From the First Opium War to the Great Depression, events around the world stretched the capacity of bullion based economics. So what – and who – finally abandoned it?

Related posts:

  1. The History of Paper Money – I: Origins of Exchange – Extra History
  2. The History of Paper Money – V: Working out the Kinks – Extra History
  3. The History of Paper Money – II: Not Just Noodles – Extra History
  4. The History of Paper Money – IV: Lay Down the Law – Extra History
  5. The History of Paper Money – III: Barebones Economy – Extra History

No Comments

No comments yet.

RSS feed for comments on this post.

Sorry, the comment form is closed at this time.

Powered by WordPress