Written by Lewis E. Lehrman
- New York University Press
Today, national economic policy making is largely concerned with the problems of unemployment and inflation. More precisely, it is their simultaneous combination in nearly all Western economies which preoccupies policy makers. As these problems grow worse, the stakes rise higher.
The United States once again can establish a stable dollar worth its weight in gold.
After almost a century of manipulated paper- and credit-based currencies, how do nations--which need the benefits of free trade in order to prosper--terminate the anarchy of volatile, depreciating, floating exchange rates?
Lewis E. Lehrman endeavors to answer this and more with The True Gold Standard.