In 'England's Cross of Gold', James Ashley Morrison challenges the conventional view that the UK's ruinous return to gold in 1925 was inevitable. Instead, he offers a new perspective on the struggles among elites in London to define and redefine the gold standard-from the first …
Genesis and Exodus : The Tragedy of England's Return to Gold -- The Road to Calvary : From Orthodoxy to Theocracy -- The Cunliffe "Consensus" -- Atop Sinai : More Heat Than Light -- The Golden Calf : The Public Idolize Gold -- Commandments : Defining the Law -- Myths : Theirs an…
"James Ashley Morrison's heavily archival work offers a new account of the ideas and leading actors that drove Churchill's disastrous decision to restore Britain to the gold standard following World War I. It directly challenges the conventional view that Churchill restored the …
"James Ashley Morrison's heavily archival work offers a new account of the ideas and leading actors that drove Churchill's disastrous decision to restore Britain to the gold standard following World War I. It directly challenges the conventional view that Churchill restored the …