The Rise and Fall of the Dollar, or When Did the Dollar Replace Sterling as the Leading Reserve Currency?
@article{Eichengreen2008TheRA, title={The Rise and Fall of the Dollar, or When Did the Dollar Replace Sterling as the Leading Reserve Currency?}, author={Barry Eichengreen and Marc Flandreau}, journal={Economic History}, year={2008} }
Much as Paul David described the invention of the mechanical typewriter – it was invented 51 times before being patented by Christopher Sholes in 1867, licensed to the Remington Company and successfully commercialized – the connections between the gold-exchange standard and the Great Depression have been discovered repeatedly. They were discovered by Ehsan Choudhri and Levis Kochin in a seminal article in 1980. They were discovered by Barry Eichengreen and Jeffrey Sachs in articles published in…
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