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1. Frontmatter i
2. National Bureau of Economic Research v
3. Relation of the Directors to the Work and Publications of the National Bureau of Economic Research vi
4. Contents ix
5. List of Tables xi
6. List of Figures xiii
7. List of Cartoons xv
8. A Note on the Cover xvi
9. Acknowledgments xvii
10. Part One: The Historical and Methodological Context
11. 1. Introduction 1
12. 2. Anchors Aweigh: The Drift toward Crisis in the 1880s 37
13. Part Two: The Baring Crisis and Its Origins
14. 3. A Monetary and Financial Wreck: The Baring Crisis, 1890-91 67
15. 4. Collision Course: Macroeconomic Policies and the Crash 80
16. Part Three: The Making of the Belle Époque
17. 5. Relaunching the Gold Standard: From Monetary “Anemia’’ to “Plethora’’ and the Political Economy of Resumption, 1891-99 99
18. 6. Calm Before a Storm: The Gold Standard During the Belle Époque, 1899-1914 118
19. Part Four: The Travails of the Interwar Years
20. 7. Distress Signals: Financial Fragility in the Interwar Period 139
21. 8. Bailing Out: Internal versus External Convertibility 165
22. 9. Steering through the Great Depression: Institutions, Expectations, and the Change of Macroeconomic Regime 188
23. Part Five: Postscript
24. 10. Postscript 221
25. Appendix 1. Historical Statistics 236
26. Appendix 2. The Law of National Guaranteed Banks 240
27. Appendix 3. Money Supply Periodization, 1884-1913 244
28. Appendix 4. Money and Exchange Rates, 1884-1913 247
29. Appendix 5. Instituto Movilizador de Inversiones Bancarias 253
30. Appendix 6. Humor, Politics, and the Economy 255
31. References 257
32. Name Index 267
33. Subject Index 271