Download or read book Gold and Prices written by George F. Warren and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-11-08 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This influential study of the relationship between the prices of gold and other commodities was originally published in 1935. In it the authors attributed the initial cause of the great depression in the US to the reestablishment of the gold standard in many European countries and resulting deflation. The authors' recommendations were successfully implemented by Franklin D. Roosevelt.