Gold
Gold's literature splits between cultural history of the metal and monetary history of the gold standard that anchored it.
8 books · 3 people behind it
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- The Power of GoldPeter L. Bernstein, 2000
- The Golden ConstantRoy W. Jastram, 1977
The people behind it 3
Each person holds a book in this entry or names it in their own tags.
Investors 1
Academics 1
Journalists 1
Books 8
Peter L. Bernstein · 2000 · Six thousand years of the obsession; the standard narrative history.
Liaquat Ahamed · 2009 · Four central bankers and the gold standard that broke the interwar world.
Barry Eichengreen · 1992 · The scholarly case that the gold standard transmitted the Depression.
E. W. Bovill · 1958 · Trans-Saharan gold and salt trade; the medieval West African economy
Roy W. Jastram · 1977 · The long-run purchasing-power series that grounds gold inflation-hedge claims.
Barry Eichengreen, Marc Flandreau · 1997 · Edited collection of the core academic papers.
Nathan Lewis · 2007 · Hard-money argument for a return to a gold link.
James Rickards · 2016 · Popular bull case; useful as a statement of the position.