Download or read book Money and Trade Wars in Interwar Europe written by ALESSANDRO ROSELLI and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-10-29 with total page 485 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This books explains, on the basis of archival evidence and a simple economic model, why and how the gold standard collapsed in the interwar period. It also reveals how bilateralism and dirigisme in international financial relations emerged from the collapse of the universal gold standard, and how this poisoned international relations.