The French Crime of 1873: An Essay on the Emergence of the International Gold Standard, 1870–1880

This article attempts to provide a new view of how the bimetallic standard was maintained before 1873 and how it came to change into a monometallic gold standard between 1870 and 1880. The conventional view that the gold standard emerged out of the contradictions of bimetallism is not persuasive. In... View More