Ricardo and the Gold Standard: The Foundations of the International Monetary Order

Abstract

Part 1 Ricardo's writings: gold, the exchnge rate and the quantity of money the Essay and the Proposals value and distribution in Parliament. Part 2 Credit and currency: the English financial revolution the banking system currency circulation. Part 3 The value of money: the measure of the value of money the invariable measure of value absolute value and relative value of gold. Part 4 The quantity of money: alternative approaches cost of production and equilibrium quantity of gold the adjustment mechanisms of the quantity of money price stability under the Gold Standard. Part 5 Trade and international finance: mercantile houses and merchant banks the bill of exchange subsidies loans. Part 6 The gold market: international payments the London gold market the export and import of gold. Part 7 The Foreign Exchange market: the price of gold the rate of exchange the exchange rate between London and Hamburg. Part 8 The theory of the Gold Standard: the Redundancy of Currency stable and unstable monetary regimes stopping rule for gold movements Ricardo's method. part 9 Ricardo and his time: gold as a commodity the theory of unilateral transfer market and money.

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