Golden Fetters: The Gold Standard and the Great Depression, 1919-1939.

First edition, first printing. 8vo. xix, [1], 448 pp. Original green cloth, spine lettered and ruled in gilt, dust jacket (internally clean and unmarked. spine panel of jacket only the slightest shade faded, in all other respects a very fine copy). New York, Oxford University Press.

A commanding study that 'explores the connection between the gold standard - the framework regulating international monetary affairs until 1931 - and the Great Depression that broke out in 1929. Eichengreen shows how economic policies, in conjunction with the imbalances created by World War I, gave rise to the global crisis of the 1930s. He demonstrates that the gold standard fundamentally constrained the economic policies that governments pursued and that it was largely responsible for creating the unstable economic environment on which those policies acted' (dust jacket blurb).

Stock Code: 247318