Always and entirely he was the champion of monotheism.

So why exactly did this transition to monotheism occur?

You asked me why we returned in 1873 to monometalism, limping though it be.

You asked me why we returned in 1873 to monometalism, limping though it be.

Gold monometalism is a British policy, and its adoption has brought other nations into financial servitude to London.

With the attainment of gold monometallism, liberals believed the goal of monetary policy had been reached.

It was in the latter capacity that the state intervened when the alternative standard was replaced by permanent monometallism.

Milton Friedman’s bimetallic standard inherently more stable than a monometallic (gold-based) regime.

The demonetization of silver and the establishment of gold monometallism was the outcome of deliberate government interference with monetary matters.

The United States effectively put gold on top in 1834, although British-style monometallism was not wholly adopted until 1900.

In the United States, the price structure on the bullion market had already, before the outbreak of the Civil War, transformed the legal bimetallism into de facto gold monometallism.

In the United States the price structure on the bullion market had already, before the outbreak of the Civil War, transformed the legal bimetallism into de facto gold monometallism.

The transition was quite simple and easy when the action of the state consisted in preventing a return to the temporarily undervalued metal in one of the alternating monometallic periods by rescinding the fight of free coinage.