Contenidos:Acknowledgments -- Editor`s introduction / Barry Eichengreen -- PART I : THE GOLD STANDARD IN THEORY - On the balance of trade / David Hume -- The working of the prewar gold standard / P.B.Whale -- How the gold standard worked 1880-1913 / Donald N.McCloskey, Richard Zecher -- Money and the price level under the gold standard / Robert J. Barro - PART II : THE GOLD STANDARD IN HISTORY - The working of the gold standard / W.M.Scammell -- The myth and realities of the so-called gold standard / Robert Triffin -- Notes on the working of the gold standard before 1914 / A.G.Ford - PART III : THE INTERWAR GOLD EXCHANGE STANDARD - First interin report / Cunliffe Commitee on Currency and Foreing Exchanges after the War -- Report / Macmillan Commitee on Finance and Industry -- The gold exchange standard / Ragnar Nurkse - PART IV : BRETTON WOODS AND AFTER - The gold-dollar system : conditions of equilibrium and the price of gold / Milton Gilbert -- The gold standard : historical facts and future prospects / Richard N. Cooper.