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Gold and the Gold Standard - Digital Book

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It was really Kemmerer vs. Keynes in those years, and it is a tragedy that Keynes prevailed. Nonetheless, the great book is newly in print so that we can see what might have been and what could be again.
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Edwin Walter Kemmerer is one of the unsung heroes of the 20th century. A professor of economics at Princeton, he was known as the "money doctor" between the wars, helping countries to establish and maintain strong currencies between 1923 and 1933. He was a firm advocate of the gold standard, writing in the classical and Misesian tradition. He favored hard money with convertibility domestic and international.

This is his major treatise: Gold and the Gold Standard: The Story of Gold Money, Past, Present, and Future. He reviews the history of gold and its outstanding merit as a currency. Writing in 1944, he presented a plan that would have saved the entire world from hyperinflation and the booms and busts we've experienced for 50 years.

It was really Kemmerer vs. Keynes in those years, and it is a tragedy that Keynes prevailed. Nonetheless, the great book is newly in print so that we can see what might have been and what could be again. Following Kemmerer, the world would turn away from paper money and again embrace hard money.

Kemmerer was a favorite of Murray Rothbard's, and Murray loved this particular book. To be sure, Kemmerer doesn't go as far as Rothbard or Mises in demanding the abolition of the central bank, and his naiveté is on display here in thinking that government could manage a gold standard. Even so, his gold standard plan is just about as pure as anyone's in his generation, insisting that banks operate as real businesses and calling for 100 percent reserves.

This book has been out of print for 50 years and is now back.

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ISBN 9781610161749
eISBN 9781610164429
Publisher Ludwig von Mises Institute
Publication Date 2009
Original Publication Date 1944
Page Length 245

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