The Silver Standard

Author : Austin Dean
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501752421
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book China and the End of Global Silver, 1873–1937 written by Austin Dean and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2020-11-15 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the late nineteenth century, as much of the world adopted some variant of the gold standard, China remained the most populous country still using silver. Yet China had no unified national currency; there was not one monetary standard but many. Silver coins circulated alongside chunks of silver and every transaction became an "encounter of wits." China and the End of Global Silver, 1873–1937 focuses on how officials, policy makers, bankers, merchants, academics, and journalists in China and around the world answered a simple question: how should China change its monetary system? Far from a narrow, technical issue, Chinese monetary reform is a dramatic story full of political revolutions, economic depressions, chance, and contingency. As different governments in China attempted to create a unified monetary standard in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, the United States, England, and Japan tried to shape the direction of Chinese monetary reform for their own benefit. Austin Dean argues convincingly that the Silver Era in world history ended owing to the interaction of imperial competition in East Asia and the state-building projects of different governments in China. When the Nationalist government of China went off the silver standard in 1935, it marked a key moment not just in Chinese history but in world history.

Author : William L. Silber
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691208697
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Story of Silver written by William L. Silber and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-01-12 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is the story of silver's transformation from soft money during the nineteenth century to hard asset today, and how manipulations of the white metal by American president Franklin D. Roosevelt during the 1930s and by the richest man in the world, Texas oil baron Nelson Bunker Hunt, during the 1970s altered the course of American and world history. FDR pumped up the price of silver to help jump start the U.S. economy during the Great Depression, but this move weakened China, which was then on the silver standard, and facilitated Japan's rise to power before World War II. Bunker Hunt went on a silver-buying spree during the 1970s to protect himself against inflation and triggered a financial crisis that left him bankrupt. Silver has been the preferred shelter against government defaults, political instability, and inflation for most people in the world because it is cheaper than gold. The white metal has been the place to hide when conventional investments sour, but it has also seduced sophisticated investors throughout the ages like a siren. This book explains how powerful figures, up to and including Warren Buffett, have come under silver's thrall, and how its history guides economic and political decisions in the twenty-first century"--Publisher's description

Author : Craig K. Elwell
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
ISBN 13 : 143798889X
Total Pages : 18 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Brief History of the Gold Standard (GS) in the United States written by Craig K. Elwell and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2011-10 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The U.S. monetary system is based on paper money backed by the full faith and credit of the fed. gov't. The currency is neither valued in, backed by, nor officially convertible into gold or silver. Through much of its history, however, the U.S. was on a metallic standard of one sort or another. On occasion, there are calls to return to such a system. Such calls are usually accompanied by claims that gold or silver backing has provided considerable economic benefits in the past. This report reviews the history of the GS in the U.S. It clarifies the dates during which the GS was used, the type of GS in operation at the various times, and the statutory changes used to alter the GS and eventually end it. It is not a discussion of the merits of the GS. A print on demand oub.

Author : Matías Romero
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Silver Standard in Mexico written by Matías Romero and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Frank William Taussig
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Silver Situation in the United States written by Frank William Taussig and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jin Xu
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300258275
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Empire of Silver written by Jin Xu and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2021-02-23 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A thousand-year history of how China’s obsession with silver influenced the country’s financial well-being, global standing, and political stability This revelatory account of the ways silver shaped Chinese history shows how an obsession with “white metal” held China back from financial modernization. First used as currency during the Song dynasty in around 900 CE, silver gradually became central to China’s economic framework and was officially monetized in the middle of the Ming dynasty during the sixteenth century. However, due to the early adoption of paper money in China, silver was not formed into coins but became a cumbersome “weighing currency,” for which ingots had to be constantly examined for weight and purity—an unwieldy practice that lasted for centuries. While China’s interest in silver spurred new avenues of trade and helped increase the country’s global economic footprint, Jin Xu argues that, in the long run, silver played a key role in the struggles and entanglements that led to the decline of the Chinese empire.

Author : William Stanley Jevons
Publisher : New York : D. Appleton, c[1875]
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Money and the Mechanism of Exchange written by William Stanley Jevons and published by New York : D. Appleton, c[1875]. This book was released on 1875 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Series title also at head of t.p.

Author : Thomas B. Buchanan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Plea for Silver Coinage and a Double Standard written by Thomas B. Buchanan and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Stefano Battilossi
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9789811305955
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Handbook of the History of Money and Currency written by Stefano Battilossi and published by Springer. This book was released on 2020-03-13 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook provides a comprehensive overview of state-of-the-art research in the field of monetary and financial history. The authors comprise different generations of leading scholars from universities worldwide. Thanks to its unrivaled breadth both in time (from antiquity to the present) and geographical coverage (from Europe to the Americas and Asia), the volume is set to become a key reference for historians, economists, and social scientists with an interest in the subject. The handbook reflects the existing variety of scholarly approaches in the field, from theoretically driven macroeconomic history to the political economy of monetary institutions and the historical evolution of monetary policies. Its thematic sections cover a wide range of topics, including the historical origins of money; money, coinage, and the state; trade, money markets, and international currencies; money and metals; monetary experiments; Asian monetary systems; exchange rate regimes; monetary integration; central banking and monetary policy; and aggregate price shocks.

Author : Robert Barclay (of Manchester.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Silver Question and the Gold Question written by Robert Barclay (of Manchester.) and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: