When the Herschell Committee was called, from October 27, 1892 to February 2, 1893, India was still a silver monometallic country, the negotiations on
bimetallism had failed, and many countries similar to India had already turned to the gold standard as a solution.
Along with a return to prosperity during McKinley's first year in office, the party passed a new tariff bill, ended the debate over
bimetallism by shifting to the gold standard, and set the stage for more vigorous action on the trust issue and a more active foreign policy (Gould 1980).
In those years, many attempts to institutionalize
bimetallism happened, shaking the confidence in the U.
He wrote about a widespread confusion, which he discerned in the then-current debate about
bimetallism, in the interpretation of interest rates.
If you want a detailed exposition of Bryan's electoral strategy in 1908, an examination of the economics of
bimetallism, or a tick-tock account of his struggle against America's entry into World War I, this is not the book for you.
Weber, 2000, A model of
bimetallism, Journal of Political Economy 108, 1210-1234.
The other great economic controversy in American political life contemporaneous with the emergence of pragmatism was the "money question," the debate over whether the United States should switch from the gold standard to one based on
bimetallism.
bimetallism, Mugwumps, protective tariffs), most listeners will find this challenging because of the fast-paced reading.
Dunham, whose intent was to move the country away from
bimetallism to a monometallic (gold) standard, similar to that used in Great Britain.
In the words of his biographer Stephen Kantrowitz, Tillman regarded
bimetallism as a "bridge between disaffected producers in the Democratic South and their brethren in the Republican West.
The phrase referred to the change in the United States' monetary system from
bimetallism, in which gold and silver are used concurrently, to the gold standard.
The gold standard arose out of
bimetallism in the 1870s, after silver had been effectively demonetised in major countries and no country was willing or able to maintain the bimetallic ratio.
