When I began exploring the topic last year, I expected to find dozens of different, compact histories of the gold standard in the U.S. In fact, I didn't find but one, which left a number of what I considered to be important aspects of the topic unaddressed. I dare to hope, therefore, that no-one will say (as Moses Hades is reported to have said of some poor scholar's book) that my just-released Cato Policy Analysis "fills a much needed gap."
The Rise and Fall of the Gold Standard

by George Selginon
About George Selgin
George Selgin is a senior fellow and director emeritus of the Center for Monetary and Financial Alternatives at the Cato Institute and Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of Georgia. His research covers a broad range of topics within the field of monetary economics, including monetary...