ABSTRACT

This book presents the lifelong and ongoing research of Lawrence H. Officer in a systematic way. The result is an authoritative treatment of such issues as market structure and economic efficiency where more than one characteristic of a commodity is priced, both in general and in application to shipping conferences; financing of the United Nations and International Monetary Fund; monetary history of the UK and US; and central-bank preferences between gold and dollars,

The book first examines multidimensional pricing, defined as pricing when a commodity or service has several characteristics that are priced. The second part is concerned with country-group conflicts in the United Nations and International Monetary Fund. The book then takes a fresh look at historical experiences of monetary-standard upheavals and the final part considers a crucial time (1958-67), during which central-bank gold-dollar decisions were power-politically determined.

part 2|88 pages

Financing of international organizations

part 3|113 pages

Monetary history

chapter 10|20 pages

The bullionist controversy

A time-series analysis *

chapter 11|46 pages

The U.S. Specie Standard, 1792–1932

Some monetarist arithmetic *

chapter 12|22 pages

The quantity theory in New England, 1703–1749

New data to analyze an old question *

chapter 13|23 pages

Afterword to Part III

part 4|34 pages

Gold