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Apr 2024
47m 12s

The History of Bad Ideas: The Gold Stand...

David Runciman
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In the second episode in our series on bad ideas David talks to the political economist Helen Thompson about the gold standard, which was meant to anchor the world economy until it all fell apart a hundred years ago. Why does gold so often appear like a stable basis for money in an unstable world – and why not silver? What made the gold standard a source of ... Show More
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