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The gold standard and the euro: A reflection from a reading of A Tract on Monetary Reform

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  • Vicente Esteve

    (Universidad de Valencia, Spain)

  • Manuel Navarro-Ibáñez

    (Universidad de La Laguna, Spain)

  • María A. Prats

    (Universidad de Murcia, Spain)

Abstract

This paper makes a comparison between the gold standard and the euro through a study of Keynes’s views on the need to manage the macroeconomic situation of an industrial economy. The essay centers on Keynes’s first relevant economic work of the post World War I years, A Tract on Monetary Reform, analyzing its theoretical and practical content. The situation of monetary instability and the choice of exchange regime (to return or not to the gold standard, with the parity prior to the war) were the factors that attracted Keynes’s attention in those years. Similarities between the gold standard and the present euro system bestow a certain interest on Keynes’s ideas and on the economic discussions that took place in Great Britain during the postwar years (1919---1925).

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  • Vicente Esteve & Manuel Navarro-Ibáñez & María A. Prats, 2017. "The gold standard and the euro: A reflection from a reading of A Tract on Monetary Reform," Cuadernos de Economía - Spanish Journal of Economics and Finance, Asociación Cuadernos de Economía, vol. 40(114), pages 247-255, Septiembr.
    • Handle: RePEc:cud:journl:v:40:y:2017:i:114:p:247-255
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    1. Roldan Alba, 2022. "The Golden Fetters in the Mediterranean Periphery. How Spain and Italy Overcame Business Cycles Between 1870 and 1913?," Economics - The Open-Access, Open-Assessment Journal, De Gruyter, vol. 16(1), pages 170-193, January.

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    Keywords

    Keynes; Monetary policy; Central bank; Exchange rates; Gold standard; Euro system;
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    JEL classification:

    • B31 - Schools of Economic Thought and Methodology - - History of Economic Thought: Individuals - - - Individuals
    • E12 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - General Aggregative Models - - - Keynes; Keynesian; Post-Keynesian; Modern Monetary Theory
    • E50 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Monetary Policy, Central Banking, and the Supply of Money and Credit - - - General

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