Contents
Introduction by Philip Cortney
From John Law to Allan Sproul
Blunder of Money Managers
No Shortage of Gold
Distrust of Money Managers
Meaning of Standard of Value
The Price of Gold
Objections to Raising the Price of Gold
Free Markets For Gold Essential
Gold the Only Discipline
Gold Money Versus Paper Money
Obstacles to Gold Standard
International Monetary System
Precarious Monetary System
Fundamental Truths
A Sound International Monetary System
The Dollar Exchange Standard
Prerequisites and Problems
A Strange Phenomenon
Betrayal By Intellectuals
A Strange Idea
The Essence of the Gold Standard
Deflation After Civil War
Return to Gold!
Preface
1. Freedom for the Gold Market
2. The Two Monetary Markets
3. The New Franc
4. The Blocking of 5000 Francs Notes
5. Gold and Paper
6. How to Bring Gold Back to Europe
7. Change in Orientation
8. Gold, International Currency
9. The Distribution of Gold in the World
10. Gold and a Return to the Ideas of John Law
11. The Price of Gold in the United States
12. Old Ideas on Money Which Have Become New
13. About Gold for Europe
14. Prices Quoted in Gold
15. The Paradoxes of the European “Payments Union”
16. Progress in Monetary Conceptions
17. The Failure of the International Monetary Fund
18. The Gold-Guaranteed Loan and Saving
19. An American Opinion on the Gold Clause of the Pinay Loan
20. Has the Free Price of Gold Rejoined Its Official Price?
21. How to Evaluate the New Price of Gold
22. Drop in World Prices
A Universal Phenomenon
The Remedy: Increase in the Price of Gold
23. Forecasts on the Convertibility of Currencies
Appendix
Index