History of Bimetallism in the United States

This book traces the history of bimetallism in the United States, the changes in the values of gold and silver over the centuries and their standings at the time of publication, with a survey of coinage laws, with a study on the fall of silver since 1885, and the experience of the U.S. with silver since 1878 until the book’s original publication in 1886. At the time of publication the author, J. Laurence Laughlin, Ph.D., was Assistant Professor of Political Economy at Harvard University.Laughlin, James Laurence is the author of 'History of Bimetallism in the United States' with ISBN 9780898755947 and ISBN 0898755948.