First published 1962
Triumph of Gold
Triumph of Gold by Charles Rist is available as a free PDF, EPUB, and MOBI download at freecapitalists.org.
- Charles Rist
- First published
- 1962
- Format
- PDF, EPUB, and MOBI
- Pages
- 413
- ISBN
- 9781610165686
- License
- Believed to be in the public domain: this work was published in the 1932-1963 window when US copyright had to be renewed after 28 years, and no renewal was found in the Catalog of Copyright Entries. Not independently confirmed.
Charles Rist explores the history of gold as a monetary standard in the United States as well as conventional misconceptions during and after its implementation in US monetary policy. This book contains many of his speeches, articles, and some personal reflections of this world-renowned monetary economist. Rist does a magnificent job of highlighting and debunking various fallacies regarding opposition to gold as a monetary standard. This book is a must-read for anyone interested in gold’s history as money in the United States.
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
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- How long is Triumph of Gold?
- 413 pages, 28 chapters, and about 56,322 words in the edition this archive serves.
- Is Triumph of Gold in the public domain?
- Believed so. US works published between 1932 and 1963 kept copyright past 28 years only if someone filed a renewal, and no renewal for this work was found in the Catalog of Copyright Entries. That is a search result rather than a legal opinion: a renewal filed under a shortened title or a different claimant would not have been found. Some copies carry a rights notice, which records the original claim and does not extend a term that lapsed.
- Who wrote Triumph of Gold?
- Charles Rist (1874–1955) was a French economist. He established Institute Research Économiques Et Sociales (IRES) in 1933. This archive holds 3 of Rist's works.
What's in it
28 chapters · 56,322 words · free to read here
- Front Matter
- Introduction by Philip Cortney
- 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
- 23. Forecasts on the Convertibility of Currencies
- Appendix
- Index
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