The 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.