This influential study of the relationship between the prices of gold and other commodities was originally published in 1935. In it the authors attributed the initial cause of the great depression in the US to the reestablishment of the gold standard in many European countries and resulting deflation. The authors' recommendations were successfully implemented by Franklin D. Roosevelt.
This influential study of the relationship between the prices of gold and other commodities was originally published in 1935. In it the authors attributed the initial cause of the great depression in the US to the reestablishment of the gold standard in many European countries and resulting deflation.
1. Measures of Value
2. Index Numbers for Important Groups of
Commodities
3. Physical Volume of Production
4. Money
5. Gold and Prices
6.
Production and Use of Gold
7. Efficiency in the Use of Gold
8. The Price of
Gold
9. Effects of Changing the Price of Gold
10. Other Theories of Recovery
11. Short-time Variations in the Price Level
12. Comparison of Panics
13.
Silver
14. Stabilizing the Price Level
15. Causes of Inflation and Deflation
16. Price Chaos Caused by Inflation and Deflation
17. Wages
18. Wealth and
Debts
19. Taxes
20. Prices of Farm Lands
21. City Real Estate
22. Stocks and
Bonds
23. Investments When the Dollar is Unstable
24. Other Effects of
Inflation and Deflation
25. Effects of the Discovery of America on Prices
26.
The Price Outlook
George F. Warren, Frank A. Pearson
