The revised edition presents a collection of essays, both sympathetic and critical, on the gold standard. It contains six new essays drawing on the latest research to provide a critical framework for contemporary debates about the gold standard. The articles range from classics by Keynes to more modern pieces....

This book traces the roots of global financial integration in the first \"modern\" era of globalization, from 1880 to 1913. It analyzes the direction, destinations, and origins of international financial flows in order to determine the domestic policy choices that either attracted or deterred such flows to developing countries....