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England's cross of gold : Keynes, Churchill, and the governance of economic beliefs / James Ashley Morrison.

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"James Ashley Morrison's heavily archival work offers a new account of the ideas and leading actors that drove Churchill's disastrous decision to restore Britain to the gold standard following World War I. It directly challenges the conventional view that Churchill restored the gold s...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Morrison, James Ashley, 1980- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2021.
Series:Cornell studies in money.
Subjects:
Gold standard > England > History > 20th century.
Monetary policy > England > History > 20th century.
Economic policy.
Gold standard.
Monetary policy.
Great Britain > Economic policy > 1918-1945.
England.
Great Britain.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • Genesis and Exodus : The Tragedy of England's Return to Gold
  • The Road to Calvary : From Orthodoxy to Theocracy
  • The Cunliffe "Consensus"
  • Atop Sinai : More Heat Than Light
  • The Golden Calf : The Public Idolize Gold
  • Commandments : Defining the Law
  • Myths : Theirs and Ours
  • Liberalization : Implementing the Orthodoxy
  • Who Would Control Capital?
  • Keynes's Revolution
  • Understanding "The Norman Conquest of $4.86"
  • Central Bankers as Saviors?
  • Indulgence
  • Deposition and Coronation
  • The Sanhedrin : Churchill's Trials
  • Judgment
  • Conclusion : Faith in History.

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