Straining at the Anchor

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Acknowledgments
Part One: The Historical and Methodological Context
1. Introduction
2. Anchors Aweigh: The Drift Toward Crisis in the 1880s
Part Two: The Baring Crisis and Its Origins
3. A Monetary and Financial Wreck: The Baring Crisis, 1890-91
4. Collision Course: Macroeconomic Policies and the Crash
Part Three: The Making of the Belle époque
5. Relaunching the Gold Standard: From Monetary "Anemia" to "Plethora" and the Political Economy of Resumption, 1891-99
6. Calm Before a Storm: The Gold Standard During the Belle époque, 1899-1914
Part Four: The Travails of the Interwar Years
7. Distress Signals: Financial Fragility in the Interwar Period
8. Bailing Out: Internal versus External Convertibility
9. Steering Through the Great Depression: Institutions, Expectations, and the Change of Macroeconomic Regime
Part Five: Postscript
10. Postscript
Appendix 1. Histirical Statistics
Appendix 2. The Law of National Guaranteed Banks
Appendix 3. Money Supply Periodization, 1884-1913
Appendix 4. Money and Exchange Rates, 1884-1913
Appendix 5. Instituto Movilizador de Inversiones Bancarias
Appendix 6. Humor, Politics, and the Economy
References
Index