Barry Eichengreen is the John L. Simpson Professor of Economics and Professor of Political Science at the University of California at Berkeley, and Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research. He has written a number of books on international monetary issues and economic history, including Elusive Stability: Essays in the History of International Finance (1990).
"A brilliant new book."--Newsweek
"Very highly recommended."--Choice
"Important and convincingly argued....Even those who are not
sympathetic to the arguments and conclusions of this book will
agree that it is destined to be an important work for all future
students of the gold standard."--Journal of Economic Issues
"An important book....There is no doubt...that economists and
economic historians are in Eichengreen's debt. This is a fine book
which supercedes all the literature in the field. Money has been
devalued in some recent surveys of the international depression of
the 1930s. Eichengreen has brought it back to the center of the
story, which is where it belongs."--Economica
"Eichengreen has produced an excellent economic history of the
interwar years which will be read with great interest by all
students of the period. His account of the gold standard during
this dramatic period is based on wide ranging research and is
exceptional in its clarity....This volume will remain the standard
history of the gold standard for many years to come."--Times Higher
Education Supplement
"A tour de force, by the outstanding contemporary scholar of the
20th century history of the international monetary system."--John
Williamson, Senior Fellow, Institute for International
Economics
"This stimulating book is notable for its integration of political
and economic analysis in helping us to understand the weakneses of
the gold standard in the interwar period."--Journal of
Interdisciplinary History
"[Golden Fetters] may become a standard reference for years to
come."--Research Reports, American Institute for Economic
Research
"Golden Fetters compels us to reexamine familiar ideas about
economic pathology in the interwar period and the way the gold
standard functioned before the First World War. Eichengreen offers
us new views of old problems. This is the most important
contribution to the subject since the works of Brown and Nurkse,
more than four decades ago."--Peter B. Kenen, Houblon-Kenen Fellow,
Bank of England
"Eichengreen illuminates the role of the gold standard in his
masterly analysis of the global economic and political forces that
produced the Great Depression and economic recovery after
1933."--Anna J. Schwartz, National Bureau of Economic Research
"A major reinterpretation of the Great Depression, from the
perspective of the world political economy. Golden Fetters is 'must
reading' for students of international political economy."--Robert
O. Keohane, Harvard University
"Eichengreen has succeeded in providing a rare blend of
well-balanced economic and historical analyses. The result is new
interpretation of the policy failures that led to the Great
Depression: the lack of international cooperation features as a
prominent cause of economic instability. There is no doubt in my
mind that historians will see Golden Fetters as the standard work
on the subject for years to come."--Gianni Toniolo,
Dipartimente
Economische Venezia
"Eichengreen's book provides new and insightful analyses of how the
gold standard worked and its role in the economic crisis of the
interwar years."--David Hale, Chief Economist and Senior Vice
President, Kemper Finanacial Corporation
"In this brilliant and synthetic new book, Barry Eichengreen has
gone well beyond his previous work to marshal a powerful indictment
of the interwar gold standard, and of the political leaders and
economic policy-makers who allowed themselves to be bound by golden
fetters while the world economy collapsed."--Journal of Monetary
Economics
"Anyone tempted to make historical parallels beteen the EMS and the
gold standard should read Barry Eichengreen's scholarly
account....His book is written with a clarity that allows one to
identify both elements of the gold standard that were unique and
those that are common to any regime of fixed exchange rates."--The
London Times Literary Supplement
"I agree with Robert J. Samuelson (Newsweek) that Barry
Eichengreen's Golden Fetters...is "a brilliant new
book."...Eichengreen has done nearly the impossible. He writes
successfully both for "the elusive general reader" (p. xiii) and
for the specialist historian. Anyone who reads The Wall Street
Journal should be able to understand and appreciate his
book."--Business History Review
"This major work provides a striking reinterpretation of the role
of the gold standard in the international economy during the
interwar years."--The Historian
"This new international history of the inter-war gold standard,
which will quickly become the standard work...succeeds at a number
of levels. First, it is superbly written and achieves its objective
of being accessible to the general reader. Secondly, it shows how
national histories can be knitted together into a coherent analysis
of an international economic crisis, thereby furthering the cause
of comparative economic history....An excellent book...quite
compelling reading."--Business History
"It is superb monetary history....The great strength of
Eichengreen's historical analysis is his enormously wide knowledge
of, and sympathy for, economic and political conditions in all the
major countries concerned...a marvelous book. It is, in addition,
beautifully written, and fully accessible to general readers....A
real pleasure to read, the work of a master economic
historian."--International Journal of Finance and Economics
"[The book] represents the definitive statement of a vastly
prolific scholar. Graciously written, impressively researched,
organized...with a large interdisciplinary audience in mind, [it]
bids fair to be the classic contribution on its subject, a
veritable tour de force."--Labor History
"Breaks new ground while addressing the overtilled terrain of the
interwar period...highly readable. [The book] skillfully integrates
the findings of many technical arguments, sacrificing neither rigor
nor clarity. It is also impressive in scope, providing a broad
overview of the interwar international economy."--Merson
International Studies Review
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