I was pleasantly surprised to receive an email a couple of weeks ago from someone I don’t know, a graduate student in economics at George Mason University, James Caton. He sent me a link to a paper (“Good as Gold?: A Quantitative Analysis of Hawtrey and Cassel’s Theory of Gold Demand and the Gold Price Level During the Interwar Period”) that he recently posted on SSRN. Caton was kind enough to credit me and my co-author Ron Batchelder, as well as Doug Irwin (here and here) and Scott Sumner, for reviving interest in the seminal work of Ralph Hawtrey and Gustav Cassel on the interwar gold standard and the key role in causing the Great Depression played by the process of restoring the gold standard after it had been effectively suspended after World War I began.
Thursday, October 10, 2013
Glasner Reviews my Paper on the Interwar Gold Standard and Central Bank Gold Demand
See it here. And if you haven't already, check out the paper here.
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Congratulations, James Caton!
ReplyDeleteAs for your working paper...well, I did have one minor suggestion to make, but I don't want to repeat myself again. I hope you don't mind my laziness with this URL!
http://uneasymoney.com/2013/10/10/a-new-paper-shows-just-how-right-hawtrey-and-cassel-were/#comment-23366
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