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Summaries of Addresses of Presidents of Sections: The Gold Standard

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IN his presidential address to Section F (Economics and Statistics), Prof. J. H. Jones discusses the problem of the gold standard. He points out that the economic conditions under which the post-War gold standard was called upon to work differed materially from those which had enabled the pre-War standard to enjoy so large a measure of success, that it was taken for granted as an integral part of the modern economic system.

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Summaries of Addresses of Presidents of Sections: The Gold Standard. Nature 132, 398–399 (1933). https://doi.org/10.1038/132398b0

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